A Medicine Woman Speaks: Exploration of Native American Spirituality

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Its message comes from the voice of a great Indian medicine man who,as a boy,witnessed the destruction and chaos wrought by the white man. The narratives of Black Elk are riveting as he describes the confusion, terror, anger, rebellion and flight of his people.

His dreams and visions become the legend and the legacy of the Lakota Sioux. This is a story told by a man of power,and it is mesmerising. Other books by John G. When the Tree Flowered: A Mystical Poem and Poetic Values: A moving book with perhaps the essential message of our time. Kaltreider has captured the essence of the dilemma facing the modern technological society of the West and increasingly of developing countries: Many Native American prophecies foretell a time of decision or a descent into complete destruction of humankind and much of the rest of the planet.

For there is hope, as Chasing Deer says, if we take as our motto "Mitakue Oyasin" - we are all related. Rolling Thunder is about history, culture, the earth, sky, trees, sacred herbs, vibrations, spirits, contemporary politics - and it is about these things passionately.

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Rolling Thunder is an American Indian medicine man - spiritual leader, philosopher, and acknowledged spokesman for the Cherokee and Shoshone tribes. Ishi was the last of the Yahi Indians, living in Northern California under a cloak of fear, secrecy, and evasion from white men, carrying on this lifestyle for the better part of four decades. In this thoroughly researched book, Theodora Kroeber tells Ishi's story. She covers the historical and geographical background of the Yahi Indians, and how Ishi and the few remaining people of his tribe lived until Ishi was the last one left.

The author does a superb job of comparing and contrasting Ishi's stone age world with the steel age world, without the tedious prose often involved in such writing. Medicine Woman by Lynn V. We live in times where we feel we want to have a more personal relationship to the great mystery and all things spiritual.

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We want to feel the magic. As a result we seek paths that will include these missing elements - explain the unexplainable, know the unknowable. A book such as Medicine Woman can fill that collective longing. It is about an ordinary woman who"blunders" upon extraordinary events, whose storytelling allows us the opportunity to fulfill our own unlived lives. Other books by Lynn V. The Flight of the Seventh Moon: The Sisters of the Dreamtime Star Woman: A Marriage of Spirit Walk in Spirit: Prayers for the Seasons of Life.

Tales of a Shaman's Apprentice: In a captivating plea for more effective management of the rain forest's botanical, medicinal, and cultural resources, the chief ethnobotanist at Conservation International vividly recalls his apprenticeships to the tribal shamanic healers of the northeast Amazon.

Plotkin presented himself as an unlikely student to the Tirio and Wayana shamans, offering in exchange to write down what he was taught, thereby preserving the shamanic lore. Meanwhile, his book of botanical lore, presented as promised to the tribes, has helped restore a self-respect battered during years of interaction with the West. No one could convey the potential tragedy of this statement more convincingly than this author, who has done something to remedy it. Rosita Arvigo was trained in the United States as doctor of naprapathy.

This book is the compelling drama of her quest to preserve the knowledge of Don Elijio Panti, one of the last surviving and most respected traditional healers in the rainforest of Belize. Seeker of Visions by John Lame Deer. This personal narrative of a Sioux medicine man reveals his way of life, his role as a holy man among the Lakota, and his relationship with the whites.

Seven Arrows by Hyemeyohsts Storm. You are about to begin the adventure of the People, the Plains Indians People.

You probably have known these People only by their whiteman names, as the Cheyesnne, the Crow and the Sioux. Here you will learn to know of them as they were truly known. The story of these people has at its center and all around it the story of the Medicine Wheel. The Medicine Wheel is the very Way of life of the People.

It is an understanding of the Universe. Kept off the shelves for eight years by legal battles, this is the comprehensive history of the desperate Indian efforts to maintain their traditions and preserve the sacredness of the earth. Matthiessen reveals the Lakota Indians' long struggle with the U. Indian Country by Peter Mathiessen. This controversial book powerfully sheds new light on the plight of Native Americans. Matthiessen's urgent accounts and absorbing journalistic details make it impossible to ignore the message they so eloquently proclaim.

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Other books by Peter Mathiessen: Sacred Sea of Siberia Men's Lives: The Man Made of Words: Essays, Stories, Passages by N. Early as well as recent work appears in this collection of essays by the eminent Native American writer. Together they reveal how consistent Momaday's stately, oratorical voice has been during his year career. Consistent, too, has been his concern for humanity's place in the natural world and for the spiritual messages Native American traditions offer an alienated society.

Momaday's reminiscences of tribal elders, his lively way with a traditional story, his wonder at natural beauty--these are not mere embellishments on the political analysis that he weaves into the essays; rather, they are vital components of Momaday's complex way with words. House Made of Dawn by N. The magnificent Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of a proud stranger in his native land. He was a young American Indian named Abel, and he lived in two worlds. One was that of his father, wedding him to the rhythm of the seasons, the harsh beauty of the land, the ecstasy of the drug called peyote.