Native Spirit

Native Spirit
Author: Thomas Yellowtail
Publisher: World Wisdom, Inc
Total Pages: 136
Release: 2007
Genre: Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN: 9781933316277

Thomas Yellowtail-one of the most admired American Indian spiritual leaders of the last century-reveals the mystical beauty of the ancient Sun Dance ceremony, which still remains at the center of the spiritual life of the Plains Indians.

Sundancing

Sundancing
Author: Thomas E. Mails
Publisher: Council Oak Books
Total Pages: 360
Release: 1998
Genre: Dakato Indians
ISBN: 1571780629

To the Plains Indians, the Sun Dance has traditionally been a profound religious ceremony, the highest form of worship of the Most Holy One. Thomas E. Mails was invited to attend and record in detail the Sioux Sun Dances at Rosebud and Pine Ridge. This was a singular honor no white man has been accorded before or since. The result is this groundbreaking work, illustrated with rare photographs and stunning four-color paintings.

Dreams and Thunder

Dreams and Thunder
Author: Zitkala-Sa
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Total Pages: 200
Release: 2005-06-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9780803299191

Zitkala-?a (Red Bird) (1876?1938), also known as Gertrude Simmons Bonnin, was one of the best-known and most influential Native Americans of the twentieth century. Born on the Yankton Sioux Reservation, she remained true to her indigenous heritage as a student at the Boston Conservatory and a teacher at the Carlisle Indian School, as an activist in turn attacking the Carlisle School, as an artist celebrating Native stories and myths, and as an active member of the Society of American Indians in Washington DC. All these currents of Zitkala-?a?s rich life come together in this book, which presents her previously unpublished stories, rare poems, and the libretto ofThe Sun Dance Opera.

The Sun Dance of the Blackfoot Indians

The Sun Dance of the Blackfoot Indians
Author: Clark Wissler
Publisher: DigiCat
Total Pages: 95
Release: 2022-09-16
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Sun Dance of the Blackfoot Indians" by Clark Wissler. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

The Shoshoni-Crow Sun Dance

The Shoshoni-Crow Sun Dance
Author: Fred W. Voget
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Total Pages: 374
Release: 1998-09-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9780806130866

About 1875 the Crows abandoned their own Sun Dance, but they continued to carry out other traditional rites despite opposition from missionaries and the federal government. In 1941, Crow Indians from Montana sought out leaders of the Sun Dance among the Wind River Shoshonis in Wyoming and under the direction of John Truhujo, made the ceremony a part of their lives. In The Shoshoni-Crow Sun Dance, Fred W. Voget draws on forty years of fieldwork to describe the people and circumstances leading to this singular event, the nature of the ceremony, the reconciliation’s with Christianity and peyotism, the role of the Sun Dance as a catalyst for the reassertion of Crow cultural identity, and the place the Sun Dance now holds in Crow life and culture. Voget’s description includes photographs and diagrams of the Sun Dance.

The Animals Came Dancing

The Animals Came Dancing
Author: Howard L. Harrod
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
Total Pages: 204
Release: 2000-02
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9780816520275

In this major overview of the relationship between Indians and animals on the northern Great Plains, the author recovers a sense of the knowledge that hunting peoples had of the animals upon which they depended and raises important questions about Euroamerican relationships with the natural world.