Details

Subject(s)

• Indigenous peoples of North America—Religion [Browse]
• Indigenous peoples of North America—Medicine [Browse]
• Indigenous peoples of North America [Browse]
• Medicine—Religious aspects [Browse]
• Culture [Browse]
• Indigenous Studies [Browse]

Editor

• Trafzer, Clifford E. [Browse]

Summary note

The book highlights American Indian spiritual leaders, miracle healings, and ceremonies that have influenced American history and shows their continued significance--Provided by publisher.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• Spirits, landscape, and power: ways of Quechan, Navajo, and Apache / Clifford E. Trafzer and Benjamin Jenkins
• Main Poc: Potawatomi Wabeno / R. David Edmunds
• Kenekuk, the Kickapoo prophet / Joseph B. Herring
• Masking and effigy in the northeastern woodlands / Troy R. Johnson
• Spiritual traditions of the Great Plains / Troy R. Johnson
• Smohalla, Washani, and seven drums: religious traditions of the northwest plateau / Clifford E. Trafzer and Richard D. Scheuerman
• Tolowa Indian shakers: the role of prophecy at Smith River, California / Al Logan Slagle
• "The father tells me so!": Wovoka, the Ghost Dance Prophet / L. G. Moses
• California Indian women, wisdom, and preservation / Michelle Lorimer and Clifford E. Trafzer
• Coosewoon: visions, medicine, and sweat lodge / Clifford E. Trafzer.

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ISBN

• 9780816537167 (hardcover : alkaline paper)
• 081653716X (hardcover : alkaline paper)
• 9780816537174 (paperback : alkaline paper)
• 0816537178 (paperback : alkaline paper)

LCCN

2017012671

OCLC

983824398

Other standard number

• 14247396
• 40027506251

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