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ALL OUR RELATIVES
Traditional Native American Thoughts about Nature
ISBN: 9780941532778
ISBN 10: 0941532771
Traditional Native American Thoughts about Nature
For more than four decades world-renowned artist and author Paul Goble has participated closely in the life of the Plains Indians of the American West and has met old-timers who knew the pre-reservation days and shared the friendship of many tribal elders. In the tales and songs dreams and quotations of this book the ancient Indian ways are brought to life again. The title of this book ALL OUR RELATIVES (mitakuye oyasin) is a frequently repeated phrase in Lakota ceremonies that expresses the interdependence of creation and the presence of the Creator in all things. Through carefully chosen stories from the olden days and art that meticulously reflects traditional designs and colours Goble provides wonderful insights into the spiritual life of these nomadic peoples. His intimate knowledge of their world transports the reader into a vision of the sacred beauty and wisdom that defined traditional Native America.
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ISBN: 9780941532778
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CALL OF THE GREAT SPIRIT
The Shamanic Life and Teachings of Medicine Grizzly Bear
ISBN: 9781879181663
ISBN 10: 1879181665
The Shamanic Life and Teachings of Medicine Grizzly Bear
This redemption story of Native American healer Bobby Lake-Thom invites the reader to enter a world of authentic indigenous traditions and ceremonies. Bobby, also known as Medicine Grizzly Bear, didn't recognize his shamanic calling at first. He didn't know that his vivid dreams, psychic abilities, and visitations by wild animals and ghostly figures were calls from the Great Spirit.
In the age-old shamanic tradition, it took a near-death experience for the message to get through to him. Though still a young man, he was wracked with debilitating arthritis. Unable to handle the physical and psychic pain, he set out into the wilderness determined to kill himself with an overdose of drugs and alcohol. But before downing the substances, he approximated a Native American ceremony as best he could, sending a heartfelt prayer for assistance to the Great Spirit. He woke up--alive--the next morning and received a message from Eagle, telling him to seek help from Wahsek, a medicine man in the northern mountains. And so Bobby's apprenticeship began. Forbidden to reveal Wahsek's secrets until 10 years after his death, Bobby is now free to share this fascinating story with the world.
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In the age-old shamanic tradition, it took a near-death experience for the message to get through to him. Though still a young man, he was wracked with debilitating arthritis. Unable to handle the physical and psychic pain, he set out into the wilderness determined to kill himself with an overdose of drugs and alcohol. But before downing the substances, he approximated a Native American ceremony as best he could, sending a heartfelt prayer for assistance to the Great Spirit. He woke up--alive--the next morning and received a message from Eagle, telling him to seek help from Wahsek, a medicine man in the northern mountains. And so Bobby's apprenticeship began. Forbidden to reveal Wahsek's secrets until 10 years after his death, Bobby is now free to share this fascinating story with the world.
ISBN: 9781879181663
ISBN 10: 1879181665
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CENTER OF THE WORLD
Native American Spirituality
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ISBN: 9780878771721
ISBN 10: 0878771727
Native American Spirituality
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ISBN: 9780878771721
ISBN 10: 0878771727
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CHEROKEE FULL CIRCLE
A Practical Guide to Ceremonies and Traditions
ISBN: 9781879181953
ISBN 10: 1879181959
A Practical Guide to Ceremonies and Traditions
The Four Directions the four seasons and the four elements that make up the sacred hoop of the full circle must be in right relationship with one another or disharmony will result. Native American ritual has always emphasised the restoration of balance through ceremonies that provide a forum for learning transition and expressions of personal growth. Now Cherokee authors J. T. and Michael Garrett share Native American traditions to explore interrelationships as a tool for growth and transformation. THE CHEROKEE FULL CIRCLE gathers techniques representing Native American cultures from across America - stories exercises and individual and group rituals - to teach the inherent dynamics of right relationship and apply them to the healing path. The authors provide a comprehensive overview of Native American spiritual principles and traditions and demonstrate how these ideas and methods can be applied universally to deal with life's situations - from depression and grieving to finding purpose and establishing positive relationships. · Includes traditional sacred exercises teaching tales case studies and suggested rituals for individual and group healing. · Outlines the core principals of Native American traditional values and teaches how to apply them to the contemporary path of wellness and healing.
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ISBN: 9781879181953
ISBN 10: 1879181959
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CHEROKEE HERBAL
Native Plant Medicine from the Four Directions
ISBN: 9781879181960
ISBN 10: 1879181967
Native Plant Medicine from the Four Directions
In this rare collection of the acquired herbal knowledge of Cherokee Elders author J. T. Garrett presents the healing properties and medicinal applications of over 450 North American plants. Readers will learn how Native American healers utilise the gifts of nature for ceremonial purposes and to treat over 120 ailments from the common cold to a bruised heart. The book presents the medicine of the Four Directions and the plants with which each direction is associated. From the East comes the knowledge of heart medicine - blood-building tonics and plants for vitality and detoxification. The medicine of the South focuses on the innocence of life and the energy of youthfulness. West medicine treats the internal aspects of the physical body to encourage strength and endurance while North medicine offers a sense of freedom and connection to the stars and the greater Universal Circle. This resource also includes traditional teaching tales to offer insights from Cherokee cosmology into the origin of illness how the animals found their medicine and the naming of the plants. Ø Details the uses of over 450 plants for the treatment of over 120 ailments. Ø Explains the healing elements of the Four Directions and the plants associated with them. Ø Includes traditional teaching tales as told to the author by Cherokee Elders.
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ISBN: 9781879181960
ISBN 10: 1879181967
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CHEROKEE SACRED CALENDAR
ISBN: 9780892818044
ISBN 10: 0892818042
An essential aspect of Cherokee religion is the belief that everything on Earth is the reflection of a star. This includes not only people and animals, but rivers, trees, stones and mountains – all sentinent beings to the Cherokee. Astrology has always played a strong role in Cherokee tradition because of this belief, but unlike Western astrology, Cherokee astrology is based on a 260 day Venus calendar, which includes 20 individual day signs and 13 numbers. It was the task of the Cherokee daykeeper to co-ordinate this calendar with those of the Sun and Moon to determine the most auspicious times for ceremonies, as well as to understand the star wisdom carried back to Earth by each new-born child. The day sign of a child explains his or her strengths and weaknesses, the number explains the individuals role in the great cosmic scheme.
Fir the first time, this knowledge is made accessible to those outside the Cherokee tradition by Raven Hail, and elder of the Cherokee nation. She provides insightful descriptions for each of the twenty signs that identify characterics of those born under a particular day sign, be it turtle, reed, whirlwind or wolf, and gives the meanings of the 13 numbers that determine the significance of that sign into the larger scheme of things.
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Fir the first time, this knowledge is made accessible to those outside the Cherokee tradition by Raven Hail, and elder of the Cherokee nation. She provides insightful descriptions for each of the twenty signs that identify characterics of those born under a particular day sign, be it turtle, reed, whirlwind or wolf, and gives the meanings of the 13 numbers that determine the significance of that sign into the larger scheme of things.
ISBN: 9780892818044
ISBN 10: 0892818042
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CHEYENNE INDIANS
Their History and Lifeways
ISBN: 9781933316604
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Their History and Lifeways
This beautiful book takes George Bird Grinnell's classic work on the Cheyenne Indians and condenses it into 240 fully-illustrated pages of his most essential writings. Grinell was the long-time editor of 'Field & Stream' magazine and helped to establish both the Yellowstone and Glacier National Parks. During his career he documented several tribes of the old West, including this vivid account of the last of the Cheyenne Indians, who were forced to live out their lives as nomads.
“The value of such a work as Mr. Grinnell has produced can hardly be overstated.”
—New York Times
“In his books … Mr. George Bird Grinnell has portrayed [the Indians] with a master hand; it is hard to see how his work can be bettered.”
—Theodore Roosevelt
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CHOSEN BY THE SPIRITS
Following Your Shamanic Calling
ISBN: 9780892818617
ISBN 10: 0892818611
Following Your Shamanic Calling
The shaman's purpose is to heal and restore balance to his or her community by developing a working relationship with the spirit world. Mongolian shamanic tradition maintains that all true shamans are called by the spirits - but those who are not from shamanic cultures may have difficulty recognising the call or nurturing the essential shamanic relationship with their helper spirits. Buryat shamaness Sarangerel has written CHOSEN BY THE SPIRITS as a guide for both the beginning shaman and the advanced practitioner. Although raised in the United States she was drawn to the shamanic tradition and in 1991 returned to her ancestral homeland in the Tunken region of southern Siberia to study with traditional Buryat shamans. CHOSEN BY THE SPIRITS delves deeply into the personal relationship between the shamanic student and his or her 'spirit family'. Sarangerel recounts her own journey into shamanic practice and provides the serious student with practical advice and hands-on techniques for recognising and acknowledging a shamanic calling welcoming and embodying the spirits journeying to the spirit world and healing both people and places
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ISBN: 9780892818617
ISBN 10: 0892818611
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COYOTE WISDOM
The Power of Story in Healing
ISBN: 9781591430292
ISBN 10: 1591430291
The Power of Story in Healing
Stories are powerful sources of meaning that shape and transform our lives. We tell stories to track our process of personal and spiritual growth and to honour and respect the journeys we have made. Through stories we are provided with experiences of spiritual empowerment that can lead to transformation. In COYOTE WISDOM Lewis Mehl-Medrona explores the healing use of stories passed down from generation to generation in Native American culture and describes how we can apply this wisdom to empower and transform our own lives. A storytelling approach to transformation starts with how we were created and how we can re-create ourselves through the stories we tell. As we explore the archetypal characters and situations that populate the inner world of our stories we can experience breakthroughs of healing and even miracles of transformation.
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CRYING FOR A DREAM
The World through Native American Eyes New Edition
ISBN: 9781879181687
ISBN 10: 1879181681
The World through Native American Eyes New Edition
A powerful collection of text and full-color photographs that offers an intimate glimpse of Native American life.
- Includes rare photos and firsthand accounts of the sun dance, sacred pipe, yuwipi, and vision quest ceremonies.
- By internationally recognized ethnographer Richard Erdoes, author of Lame Deer: Seeker of Visionsand Gift of Power.
How do you go about knowing a people? In this phenomenal combination of landscape, ceremony, individual portrait, and prose, Richard Erdoes brings forth the lesser seen world of the Native American experience and vision. With the aid of firsthand accounts collected during three decades of personal interactions with indigenous tribes, Erdoes chronicles the traditional rites, individual lives, and historical persecution of North America's indigenous peoples.
The images and words of Crying for a Dreamrepresent Erdoes' finest work. His focus on the natural and sacred world of North America's indigenous peoples includes elements of the Sioux ceremonial cycle and portraits of native peoples from the plains, mesas, and deserts. The sun dance, sacred pipe, yuwipi,and vision quest are described by the author and his subjects and are illustrated with more than 70 photographs.
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- Includes rare photos and firsthand accounts of the sun dance, sacred pipe, yuwipi, and vision quest ceremonies.
- By internationally recognized ethnographer Richard Erdoes, author of Lame Deer: Seeker of Visionsand Gift of Power.
How do you go about knowing a people? In this phenomenal combination of landscape, ceremony, individual portrait, and prose, Richard Erdoes brings forth the lesser seen world of the Native American experience and vision. With the aid of firsthand accounts collected during three decades of personal interactions with indigenous tribes, Erdoes chronicles the traditional rites, individual lives, and historical persecution of North America's indigenous peoples.
The images and words of Crying for a Dreamrepresent Erdoes' finest work. His focus on the natural and sacred world of North America's indigenous peoples includes elements of the Sioux ceremonial cycle and portraits of native peoples from the plains, mesas, and deserts. The sun dance, sacred pipe, yuwipi,and vision quest are described by the author and his subjects and are illustrated with more than 70 photographs.
ISBN: 9781879181687
ISBN 10: 1879181681
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DREAMWAYS OF THE IROQUOIS
Honouring the Secret Wishes of the Soul
ISBN: 9781594770340
ISBN 10: 1594770344
Honouring the Secret Wishes of the Soul
The ancient teachings of the Iroquois people is that dreams are experiences of the soul in which we may travel outside the body across time and space and into other dimensions - or receive visitations from ancestors or spiritual guides. Dreams also reveal the wishes of the soul calling us to move beyond our ego agendas and the web of other peoples projections into a deeper more spirited life. They call us to remember our sacred contacts and reclaim the knowledge that belonged to us on levels of soul and spirit before we entered our present life experience. In dreams we also discover where our vital soul energy may have gone missing - through pain trauma or heartbreak - and how to get it back. Robert Moss was called to these ways when he started dreaming in a language he did not know which proved to be an early form of the Mohawk Iroquois language. From his personal experiences he developed a spirited approach to dreaming and living that he calls Active Dreaming. DREAMWAYS OF THE IROQUOIS is at once a spiritual odyssey a tribute to the deep wisdom of the First Peoples a guide to healing our lives through dreamwork and an invitation to soul recovery.
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ISBN: 9781594770340
ISBN 10: 1594770344
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EARTH MADE NEW
Plains Indian Stories of Creation
ISBN: 9781933316673
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Plains Indian Stories of Creation
This beautifully illustrated Plains Indian Creation story celebrates a new Earth after the flood and narrates the making of the buffaloes, mountains, plants, colourful horses and Thunderbirds among others.
Weaving together the legends of the Plains Indian tribes, including the stories of the Cheyenne, Blackfoot, Arapaho and the Crow, this revised edition contain 8 pages of additional illustrations and stories, as well as a new foreword. It also includes an extensive reference list and detailed introductory note.
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ESSENTIAL CHARLES EASTMAN (OHIYESA)
Light On the Indian World
ISBN: 9781933316338
ISBN 10: 1933316330
Light On the Indian World
Ohiyesa's works represent a complete explanation of the philosophy and moral code of the Plains Indian. Providing much of the basis of our knowledge of their sacred world view in which 'we are all related' they sound a profoundly spiritual note which speaks directly to the ecological crisis and the de-humanisation of man so often discussed in our time. On a deeper level Ohiyesa's message speaks to every person who seeks a spiritual way in the midst of a society increasingly dominated by materialism and industrial technology. This new edition contains 10 sepia photographs from Eastman's life and a thought-provoking foreword by Raymond Wilson.
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ISBN: 9781933316338
ISBN 10: 1933316330
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EXPLORING THE NORTHERN TRADITION
A Guide to the Gods Lore Rites and Celebrations from the Norse German and Anglo-Saxon Traditions
ISBN: 9781564147912
ISBN 10: 1564147916
A Guide to the Gods Lore Rites and Celebrations from the Norse German and Anglo-Saxon Traditions
EXPLORING THE NORTHERN TRADITION is an introduction to the modern reconstruction of the ancient religion of the Germanic and Scandinavian peoples. This religion called Heathenry is one of the fastest growing polytheistic religious movements in the Western world today. This book provides a thorough guide to the cosmology values ethics and rituals practiced by modern Heathens. It crosses denominational lines examining practices common to all branches of Heathenry in an easily accessible format. Readers will have the opportunity to explore the sacred stories of the various Heathen Gods like Odin Frigga Freya and Thor and the devotional practices of modern votaries. The most common devotional rite-the faining or blót-is examined in rich detail with examples given for personal use. Every new concept covered is presented in a clear and easy-to-understand manner. Readers will come away from this book with a thorough knowledge of what the Heathen community is like and what newcomers to that community can expect. Experienced Heathens will find a wealth of lore and inter-denominational critique that will make this book an excellent addition to their libraries.
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ISBN: 9781564147912
ISBN 10: 1564147916
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GIFT OF POWER
The Life and Teachings of a Lakota Medicine Man
ISBN: 9781879181120
ISBN 10: 1879181126
The Life and Teachings of a Lakota Medicine Man
As my father lay dying he gripped my hand. I felt his power flowing into me until it filled my whole being. At that moment my life changed all together from what it had been. My future became something I could only partly sense like looking at a distance mountain range half hidden in a blue haze. At that moment the man I had been died and a new man took his place' In GIFT OF POWER Archie Fire Lame Deer continues in the wonderful tradition of life-filled wise and humourous teaching established in the book LAME DEER SEEKER OF VISIONS by his father the Lakota medicine man John Fire. The power in the title of this book means magic a kind of spiritual dream magic that Archie Fire Lame Deer reveals in eloquent words. Although GIFT OF POWER is rooted far back in time it is as modern as radar and spaceships as universal as faith and friendships.
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ISBN: 9781879181120
ISBN 10: 1879181126
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GOLDEN CAULDRON
Shamanic Journeys on the Path to Wisdom
ISBN: 9780939680788
ISBN 10: 0939680785
Shamanic Journeys on the Path to Wisdom
Calling upon the magical cauldron of regeneration guided by Thoth the Egyptian god of wisdom healing and communication Nicki Scully guides us into the spirit world of sacred totems oracles and animal teachings from many cultures including Africa Egypt and North America. In this book she takes the reader through various initiations rituals and shamanistic journeys. Using the ancient cauldron as her guiding symbol she settles for nothing less than transformation. Encounter the archetypical wisdom teachings of Cobra Eagle Dolphin Lioness White Buffalo Coyote Cedar Tree and many others. Angela Werneke the award winning illustrator of MEDICINE CARDS illustrates each totem.
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ISBN: 9780939680788
ISBN 10: 0939680785
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GOSPEL OF THE REDMAN
ISBN: 9780941532761
ISBN 10: 0941532763
This commemorative edition of THE GOSPEL OF THE REDMAN honours Ernest Thompson Seton renowned naturalist artist and founder of the Boy Scouts of America. It features: · A new introduction by Seton's daughter · A new Foreword by Paul Goble · Seton's American Indian Sketches · Photographs from throughout Seton's life · An extensive bibliography of his works. 'Much simplified the message Seton delivered for more than sixty years is that a proper understanding and respect for Nature can provide a type of antidote to many of the difficulties brought on by our modern technological world. And the spiritual traditions of the First Americans provide us with profound insights into the proper understanding of man's role in the universe. THE GOSPEL OF THE REDMAN presents Seton's message and the message of the American Indians in its essential form'. Although best known as a writer of animal stories he dedicated a large part of his life to helping the Indian wherever he could but more to helping the White man realise the value of the doctrines by which the Redman lived in the days of his unspoiled grandeur.
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ISBN 10: 0941532763
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IMAGE TAKER
The Selected Stories and Photographs of Edward S. Curtis
ISBN: 9781933316703
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The Selected Stories and Photographs of Edward S. Curtis
The photographs and stories of Edward S. Curtis (1868-1952) speak through time of a bygone age. His work acts as a bridge between generations and allows readers to experience firsthand the culture of the Indians of North America.
Between 1889 and 1930, Curtis traveled throughout North America photographing and recording the stories and lifeways of the last generation of Indians from the “Buffalo Days”. Beginning in 1907, he gradually published his 20-volume masterwork, 'The North American Indian.'
Selected from that same masterwork, THE IMAGE TAKER features nearly 200 photographs, rarely seen before in print, alongside the history, myths, and legends of 26 tribal nations.
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