Download or read book Swift Eagle s Vision Quest written by Ken Eichler and published by America Star Books. This book was released on 2015-10-26 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Swift Eagle's Vision Quest is a warm and exciting story about a young Cheyenne Indian boy's adventures along the Arkansas River, at the edge of the Great Plains. His saving a wolf cub from starvation and nursing him back to health from injuries results in a strong friendship. He and his friend Little Flower enjoy riding their ponies in the river. Something goes wrong while with the buffalo hunters, and they find themselves all alone on the prairie at night with hungry coyotes. His pursuit of a vision quest that will tell him his destiny in life is heartwarming. Swift Eagle's journey to his selected site for the vision quest, ahead of a fierce storm, is very exciting. His being captured by Arapaho braves after completion of his vision quest results in justice served and a life lesson learned. The Medicine Man's interpretation of Swift Eagle's vision is profound.
Download or read book Swift Eagle s Vision Quest written by Ken Eichler and published by Publishamerica Incorporated. This book was released on 2009-01 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Swift Eagleas Vision Quest is a warm and exciting story about a young Cheyenne Indian boyas adventures along the Arkansas River, at the edge of the Great Plains. His saving a wolf cub from starvation and nursing him back to health from injuries results in a strong friendship. He and his friend Little Flower enjoy riding their ponies in the river. Something goes wrong while with the buffalo hunters, and they find themselves all alone on the prairie at night with hungry coyotes. His pursuit of a vision quest that will tell him his destiny in life is heartwarming. Swift Eagleas journey to his selected site for the vision quest, ahead of a fierce storm, is very exciting. His being captured by Arapaho braves after completion of his vision quest results in justice served and a life lesson learned. The Medicine Manas interpretation of Swift Eagleas vision is profound.
Download or read book Her Vision Quest written by Tim Haley and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a story of adventure, friendship, and self-discovery that unfolds in the great wilderness of northern Vancouver Island and the mysterious ruins of an ancient city in Zimbabwe. An Ascent Aspiring follows the younger, lovably intrepid Shirley, as she searches for a lost burial cave in the remote mountains of Vancouver Island. Older, as an archeological illustrator, her work then takes her across the ocean to the grassy savannas of Zimbabwe where she aims to solve an architectural riddle. What secrets will Shirley discover at the ruins of Great Zimbabwe? Immersed in the rich cultures of Shirley’s two adoptive families, First Nations and Shona, An Ascent Aspiring is a must-read for fans of cross-cultural mythology and archeology. At times exhilarating, at others deeply touching, Shirley’s life journey is infused with magic and the warmth of human connection. An Ascent Aspiring satisfyingly completes the Her Vision Quest trilogy.
Download or read book Flying with the Eagle Racing the Great Bear written by Joseph Bruchac and published by Fulcrum Publishing. This book was released on 2017-01-12 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Flying With The Eagle, Racing the Great Bear is a continent-spanning collection of sixteen thrilling tales in which young men must face great enemies, find the strength and endurance within themselves to succedd, and take their place by the side of their elders.
Download or read book Vision Quest written by Judd Cole and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Raised by whites, native American Touch the Sky does not fit into either community, but he is determined to belong to the Cheyenne, and he sets out into the wilderness to prove himself worthy.
Download or read book The Earth is Weeping written by Peter Cozzens and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2016 with total page 601 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "With the end of the Civil War, the nation recommenced its expansion onto traditional Indian tribal lands, setting off a wide-ranging conflict that would last more than three decades. In an exploration of the wars and negotiations that destroyed tribal ways of life even as they made possible the emergence of the modern United States, Peter Cozzens gives us both sides in comprehensive and singularly intimate detail. He illuminates the encroachment experienced by the tribes and the tribal conflicts over whether to fight or make peace, and explores the squalid lives of soldiers posted to the frontier and the ethical quandaries faced by generals who often sympathized with their native enemies, "--Amazon.com.
Download or read book Peyote and the Yankton Sioux written by Thomas Constantine Maroukis and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Peyote and the Yankton Sioux, Thomas Constantine Maroukis focuses on Yankton Sioux spiritual leader Sam Necklace, tracing his family’s history for seven generations. Through this history, Maroukis shows how Necklace and his family shaped and were shaped by the Native American Church. Sam Necklace was chief priest of the Yankton Sioux Native American Church from 1929 to 1949, and the four succeeding generations of his family have been members of the Church. As chief priest, Necklace helped establish the Peyote religion firmly among the Yankton, thus maintaining cultural and spiritual autonomy even when the U.S. government denied them, and American Indians generally, political and economic self-determination. Because the message of peyotism resonated with Yankton pre-reservation beliefs and, at the same time, had parallels with Christianity, Sam Necklace and many other Yankton supported its acceptance. The Yanktons were among the first northern-plains groups to adopt the Peyote religion, which they saw as an essential corpus of spiritual truths.
Download or read book Angelic Poems For A New World 2 written by Angela Wright and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2012-07 with total page 89 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the second book in a collection of works channelled from the angelic realms by the author. Inspiring and uplifting in their essence, this collection of poems links us to the divine and carries the theme of inner light as it manifests in the world around us. It is hoped that they will be a source of inspiration for those whose hearts are ready to receive them.
Download or read book Blood Brothers written by Lenore McKelvey Puhek and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2020-06-16 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A ripped square of calico cloth is the key to the mystery surrounding Little Bear. Who is he? Raised Blackfoot but why? His birth is a secret even to Bear Chief and Flower Woman who raise him. Blackrobes at St. Peter’s Mission, near Ft. Shaw, MT. teach Little Bear to read and write and speak English. By accident he stumbles onto clues as to who is his biological father; a retired Union Army man that had pushed the Blackfoot Nation onto the reservation near Glacier National Park. He graduates from Carlisle Indian Industrial School as a lawyer and works on Government/Tribal Treaties. Through out the many chapters Indian ways are revealed, including Blood Brother bonding; pow wows; pipe ceremonies and Vision Quests.
Download or read book Shamanism 2 volumes written by Mariko Namba Walter and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2004-12-15 with total page 1088 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A guide to worldwide shamanism and shamanistic practices, emphasizing historical and current cultural adaptations. This two-volume reference is the first international survey of shamanistic beliefs from prehistory to the present day. In nearly 200 detailed, readable entries, leading ethnographers, psychologists, archaeologists, historians, and scholars of religion and folk literature explain the general principles of shamanism as well as the details of widely varied practices. What is it like to be a shaman? Entries describe, region by region, the traits, such as sicknesses and dreams, that mark a person as a shaman, as well as the training undertaken by initiates. They detail the costumes, music, rituals, artifacts, and drugs that shamans use to achieve altered states of consciousness, communicate with spirits, travel in the spirit world, and retrieve souls. Unlike most Western books on shamanism, which focus narrowly on the individual's experience of healing and trance, Shamanism also examines the function of shamanism in society from social, political, and historical perspectives and identifies the ancient, continuous thread that connects shamanistic beliefs and rituals across cultures and millennia.
Download or read book Ghost Hawk written by Susan Cooper and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-08-27 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the end of a winter-long journey into manhood, Little Hawk returns to find his village decimated by a white man's plague and soon, despite a fresh start, Little Hawk dies violently but his spirit remains trapped, seeing how his world changes.
Download or read book The Peyote Road written by Thomas C. Maroukis and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2012-11-08 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite challenges by the federal government to restrict the use of peyote, the Native American Church, which uses the hallucinogenic cactus as a religious sacrament, has become the largest indigenous denomination among American Indians today. The Peyote Road examines the history of the NAC, including its legal struggles to defend the controversial use of peyote. Thomas C. Maroukis has conducted extensive interviews with NAC members and leaders to craft an authoritative account of the church’s history, diverse religious practices, and significant people. His book integrates a narrative history of the Peyote faith with analysis of its religious beliefs and practices—as well as its art and music—and an emphasis on the views of NAC members. Deftly blending oral histories and legal research, Maroukis traces the religion’s history from its Mesoamerican roots to the legal incorporation of the NAC; its expansion to the northern plains, Great Basin, and Southwest; and challenges to Peyotism by state and federal governments, including the Supreme Court decision in Oregon v. Smith. He also introduces readers to the inner workings of the NAC with descriptions of its organizational structure and the Cross Fire and Half Moon services. The Peyote Road updates Omer Stewart’s classic 1987 study of the Peyote religion by taking into consideration recent events and scholarship. In particular, Maroukis discusses not only the church’s current legal issues but also the diminishing Peyote supply and controversies surrounding the definition of membership. Today approximately 300,000 American Indians are members of the Native American Church. The Peyote Road marks a significant case study of First Amendment rights and deepens our understanding of the struggles of NAC members to practice their faith.
Download or read book Eagle Dancer written by Theresa Scott and published by Leisure Books. This book was released on 2001 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hope, a beautiful Lakota girl, was an enemy of her people, and was going to die. But the powerful gaze of Baron told her this man had a part in her future. Baron's will to live had fled during the Civil War, during an act so unforgivable he'd been punishing himself ever since. Could a sacred Lakota ritual and a loving heart make him whole again?
Download or read book Elf Queen s Quest written by Robert Stanek and published by RP Books & Audio. This book was released on 2008-05 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Elf Queen's Quest is book one in the Ruin Mist Dark Path and is an alternate telling of the original Ruin Mist Chronicles books. The Dark Path is meant for devoted fans who have already finished Keeper Martin's Tale, Kingdom Alliance, Fields of Honor, and Mark of the Dragon, and want to experience the original story from a different viewpoint.
Download or read book Ecology and Ethnogenesis written by Adam R. Hodge and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2019-04-01 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Ecology and Ethnogenesis Adam R. Hodge argues that the Eastern Shoshone tribe, now located on the Wind River Reservation in Wyoming, underwent a process of ethnogenesis through cultural attachment to its physical environment that proved integral to its survival and existence. He explores the intersection of environmental, indigenous, and gender history to illuminate the historic roots of the Eastern Shoshone bands that inhabited the intermountain West during the nineteenth century. Hodge presents an impressive longue durée narrative of Eastern Shoshone history from roughly 1000 CE to 1868, analyzing the major developments that influenced Shoshone culture and identity. Geographically spanning the Great Basin, Rocky Mountain, Columbia Plateau, and Great Plains regions, Ecology and Ethnogenesis engages environmental history to explore the synergistic relationship between the subsistence methods of indigenous people and the lands that they inhabited prior to the reservation era. In examining that history, Hodge treats Shoshones, other Native peoples, and Euroamericans as agents who, through their use of the environment, were major components of much broader ecosystems. The story of the Eastern Shoshones over eight hundred years is an epic story of ecological transformation, human agency, and cultural adaptation. Ecology and Ethnogenesis is a major contribution to environmental history, ethnohistory, and Native American history. It explores Eastern Shoshone ethnogenesis based on interdisciplinary research in history, archaeology, anthropology, and the natural sciences in devoting more attention to the dynamic and often traumatic history of “precontact” Native America and to how the deeper past profoundly influenced the “postcontact” era.
Download or read book The Story of Many Blankets written by Joann Ellen Sisco and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2012-09-18 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first four books are set about 200 years ago when the land was occupied by a nomadic tribe who lived in pointed tipi houses. It covers activities from the viewpoint of a thirteen year old girl, Bluebird, who illustrates with charcoal on stretched hides. A major part of the stories will be played by the native animals of the time and place, including a roving band of wild stallions. THE BISON OF THE HIGH MEADOW is Book One of the series, FOOTSTEPS IN THE CANYON. This ten book series is mainly about a canyon located on the Oklahoma panhandle. The first four books cover the activities and life of the inhabitants of the pointed tipi houses. Most of these stories are from the viewpoint of thirteen year old Bluebird as she sketches on stretched hide with her charcoal. 1.BISON OF THE HIGH MEADOW shows the interaction of the people to this native animal. Two other stories are included. 2.SEARCH FOR THE PROCUPINE is about two boys searching for the spiny animals to collect quills to decorate a sisters wedding dress. Two other stories are included 3.THE STORY OF MANY BLANKETS was not the name she was given, but the girl was determined to earn it. Two other stories are included. 4.THE KINGDOM OF THE BLACK STALLION honors the fierce black horse as he protects his band. Two other stories are included. The following six books leap forward 200 years to a modern guest ranch on the exact, same canyon. Illustrations are made by thirteen year old Caitlyn with pencil on her clipboard. Activities cover, among other things, a prairie fire, a flood, a buried treasure of long ago, a diary of a girl she would never meet, and the ditching of a hot air balloon. Each book contains two complete stories. 5. HIDDEN IN THE BLUFF and THE BIG SNOW 6. DIGGIN UP BONES and THE REALLY BAD BAG 7. THE MEMORY BOOK and THE WOLF AND THE WAPITI 8. THE TOSSED CONTAINER INCIDENT and STORIES FROM UNCLE RAYMOND 9. TWISTER and BULLRIDING AND SKYDIVING 10.ANGLERS AND TOAD STRANGLERS and SUMMER TRAIL
Download or read book The First Sioux Nun Sister Marie Josephine Nebraska 1859 1894 written by Mary Ione Hilger and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
