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CONTENTS Prologue: Traditional Religion Today Introduction: The Universe of Spirits Chapter One Dreams¿The Approach of the Sacred Eagle Shield¿s Dream Brave Buffalo¿s Dream about the Elks Black Elk¿s Dream/Vision Two Leggings¿ Dream/Vision The Dangers of Daydreaming George Schmidt¿s Daydream Shared Dreams The Sacred Intrusion Goose¿s Experience Bush¿s Buffalo Spirits Horn Chips¿ Blessing The Nature of the Medicine Man Lone Man¿Teton Sioux The Vision Quest¿Men Siya¿ka Explaining the Vision Quest Lame Deer Explaining the Vision Quest Lame Deer¿s Experience The Jesuit Account of the Vision Quest Siya¿ka¿s Vision Two Leggings¿ Vision Blows Down¿s Vision Smoking Star¿s Name Le Borgne¿s Vision Women¿s Vision Quest Experiences Catherine Wabose¿s Vision Pretty Shield¿s Vision A Pawnee Woman¿s Dream Another Pawnee Woman¿s Vision Mary Sdipp-shin-mah¿s Vision Visions in Transition John Slocum¿s Vision Minnie Enemy Heart¿s Vision Chapter Two Powers Conferred on the Medicine Men Healings Thunder Cloud Receives Healing Powers Navajo Diagnosticians Finding the Cure Dr. Perry of Massachusetts Sitting Bull¿s Self Remedy White Crow¿s Healing Instant Nautical Healing Reviving the Dead Northern Barred Owl¿s Remedy Healing Sever Gunshot Wounds Black Elk¿s Experience Eagle Shield¿s Triumph Omaha Buffalo Medicine Men Beyond Hope Healing Witchcraft Southwestern Healing Practices Pawnee Injury and Treatment Incidents Sun Road¿s Discovery and Recovery Plenty Crow¿s Healing The Horse Doctor Locating Lost Objects Goose Finds a Rifle White Shield¿s Tasks Bear Necklace¿s Stones Youngbird¿s Psychic Powers John Fornsby¿s Guardian Power Boards Dr. Jim¿s Song Unusual Predictions Predicting for the French Soldiers The Tobacco Prediction The Traders¿ Arrival The Blackfeet Prophet Chapter Three Continuing Communications The Yuwipi Ceremony The Yuwipi Spirits The Spirit Lodge Ritual Jesuit Report Andrew J. Blackbird¿s Account Henry R. Schoolcraft¿s Report Paul Kane¿s Experience Saulteaux Conjuring Catherine Wabose¿s Experience James W. Schultz¿s Report Sir Cecil Denny¿s Experience The Montagnais Practices J. G. Kohl¿s Story A. Irving Hallowell¿s Confession Muskogee Practices Cheyenne Spirit Lodge Ritual The Spirit Lodge Cure A Kiowa Spirit Lodge Chapter Four Interspecies Relations Interspecies Communication¿Birds Luther Standing Bear Interspecies Communications¿Animals Black Elk¿s Experience White Bull¿s Experience William Rowland¿s Story Jim Bridger¿s Experience The Coyote Helps the War Party Animal Powers Luther Standing Bear¿s Experience Yellow Fish¿s Tragedy Buffalo of the Sun Animals Admonishing Humans Many Tail Feathers¿ Father¿s Dream The Bears Warn the Hunter Rising Wolf¿s Prospective Warbonnet Chapter Five The Land and the Cosmos Sons-in-Jah and Desert Potatoes Making Plants Grow The Pawnee Corn Growers Growing the Cedar Berry The Pawnee Blind Man Plenty Fingers Feeds His Children Navajo Corn Growers Navajo Seed Giving Pueblo Seed Grass Ceremony Zuni Corn Growers Changes in the Weather Bringing Rain Chiricahua Apache Ceremony The Unfortunate Mexican Changing the Nature of a Storm The Texas Alabama Tradition Wooden Leg¿s Story Last Horse¿s Miracle The Blackfeet Medicine Man Contest Fulfilling Big Bear¿s Request Enlisting the Weather As an Aid The Sin¿-o-pah Weather Control Chiricahua Storm Medicine Ruffled Feathers Calms the Waters Rain as an Affirmation of a Blessing The Old Hunkpapa Sioux Chief Chapter Six Sacred Stones and Places Sacred Stones The Picture Rocks Black Elk Incident at Cannon Ball Old Mandan¿s Picture Rock Sweat Lodge Stones Medicine Stones Horn Chips¿ Stones Buffalo Stones That Call the Blackfeet Medicine Crow¿s Mother¿s Stones Healings with Stones¿Frances Densmore¿s Stones Calling the Buffalo Listening to the Ground¿s Fossil Stone Goose Calls a Buffalo Crooked Foot Finds the Buffalo Powerful Places The Comanches Discovered a Sacred Site The Pipestone Quarry The Island Sacred Rock The Standing Rock Sun Dance Site Chapter Seven Unusual Exploits of Medicine Men Early Colonial Observations Feat of Ice or White Bull at Busby in 1884 Ice¿s Account The Aoutaenhrobi Fire Ritual Holding the Jar with Feathers Calling up the Waters Invulnerability to Arrows and Bullets Bear Claws¿ Power Crazy Mule¿s Feat Brave Buffaol¿s Feat The Pawnee Doctors¿ Feats Old Man S. Box Elder¿s Exploit Powers of Crazy Mule The Old Cheyenne¿s Exploit Powers of Animation The Choctaw Medicine Man Feat of Elk Left Behind The Arickara Bear Medicine Society Buffalo Hunt Eagle Feathers Dancing Invisibility The Shawnee¿s Power The Apache Invisibility Tactic Hiding From the Flying Man The Invisible Woman Lame Medicine Man Causes Blindness Producing Anomalous Things Buffalo Lump¿s Bullets A Unified Smoke Chapter Eight The Spiritual Universe Substance Space Navajos Moving the Sun A Navajo Thunderstorm Time Geronimo¿s Power The Length of a Lifetime Brave Buffalo¿s Expectations Black Elk¿s Expectation Plenty Coups, Chief of the Crows A Chiricahua Apache Prediction Two Leggins The Buffalo and Hillside The Nighthawk Ceremony Prediction The Circumstances of Death Siya¿ka¿s Death Endnotes Bibliography
Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication:
Shamans -- North America..
Indians of North America -- Medicine.
Indians of North America -- Religion.
Indians of North America -- Rites and ceremonies.