Walking in the Sacred Manner: Healers, Dreamers, and Pipe Carriers--Medicine Women of the Plains
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Book Overview
Walking in the Sacred Manner is an exploration of the myths and culture of the Plains Indians, for whom the everyday and the spiritual are intertwined, and women play a strong and important role in the spiritual and religious life of the community. Based on extensive first-person interviews by an established expert on Plains Indian women, Walking in the Sacred Manner is a singular and authentic record of the participation of women in the sacred traditions of Northern Plains tribes, including Lakota, Cheyenne, Crow, and Assiniboine. Through interviews with holy women and the families of women healers, Mark St. Pierre and Tilda Long Soldier paint a rich and varied portrait of a society and its traditions. Stereotypical images of the Native American drop away as the voices, dreams, and experiences of these women (both healers and healed) present insight into a culture about which little is known. It is a journey into the past, an exploration of the present, and a view full of hope for the future.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0684802007
ISBN13:9780684802008
Release Date:May 1995
Publisher:Touchstone Books
Length:240 Pages
Weight:0.69 lbs.
Dimensions:0.6" x 6.2" x 9.2"
Customer Reviews
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Walking in the Sacred Maner
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 15 years ago
A must read for anyone who is interested in the spiritual ways of the Lakota Native American.
Walking in the Sacred Manner: Healers, Dreamers, and Pipe Carriers--Medicine Women of the Plains (
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 16 years ago
Excellent reading - a very comprehensive presentation of Native American concepts of spirituality and all things sacred
walking in the sacred manner
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 23 years ago
I got this book over a week ago and on the way back from Rosebud I read it to my boyfriend while we drove back to oklahoma. We both agreed that this book should be a must for all native American students and also anyone that wants to know about the Lakota Woman. I'm still trying to consume it all. Great book!!! Linda mcgann and Joe Hacker....
"Good Medicine"
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 24 years ago
Walking in the Sacred Manner is a must read for anyone wanting to learn more about Native American spirituality. It not only gives wonderful accounts of several "medicine women" and how they were called to serve, but gives the "Lakota creation story", and the story of the "White Buffalo Calf Madien" who brought ceremony and rituals to the people that are still practiced today. This book is "good medicine".
A very easy book to read
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 25 years ago
I really enjoyed reading and learning from this book. I have been studying the Native American Medicine Wheel. Found it really interesting to read the ways of another tribe.
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