Author : Thomas Yellowtail
Publisher : World Wisdom, Inc
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 22,74 MB
Release : 2007
Category : 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.
Author : Thomas Yellowtail
Publisher : World Wisdom Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 10,42 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781933316321
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.
Author : Michael Hull
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 27,63 MB
Release : 2000-10-01
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 1594775400
A powerful story of one man's redemption through the Lakota Sun Dance ceremony. • Written by the only white man to be confirmed as a Sundance Chief by traditional Lakota elders. • Includes forewords by prominent Lakota spiritual leaders Leonard Crow Dog, Charles Chipps, Mary Thunder, and Jamie Sams. The Sun Dance is the largest and most important ceremony in the Lakota spiritual tradition, the one that ensures the life of the people for another year. In 1988 Michael Hull was extended an invitation to join in a Sun Dance by Lakota elder Leonard Crow Dog-- a controversial action because Hull is white. This was the beginning of a spiritual journey that increasingly interwove the life of the author with the people, process, and elements of Lakota spirituality. On this journey on the Red Road, Michael Hull confronted firsthand the transformational power of Lakota spiritual practice and the deep ambivalence many Indians had about opening their ceremonies to a white man. Sun Dancing presents a profound look at the elements of traditional Lakota ceremonial practice and the ways in which ceremony is regarded as life-giving by the Lakota. Through his commitment to following the Red Road, Michael Hull gradually won acceptance in a community that has rejected other attempts by white America to absorb its spiritual practices, leading to the extraordinary step of his confirmation as a Sun Dance Chief by Leonard Crow Dog and other Lakota spiritual leaders.
Author : Thomas Yellowtail
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 41,56 MB
Release : 1994-03-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780806126029
Medicine man and Sun Dance chief Thomas Yellowtail is a pivotal figure in Crow tribal life. As a youth he lived in the presence of old warriors, hunters, and medicine men who knew the freedom and sacred ways of pre-reservation life. As the principal figure in the Crow-Shoshone Sun Dance religion, Yellowtail has preserved traditional values in the face of the constantly encroaching, diametrically opposed values of materialistic modern socity. Through his life story and description of the Sun Dance religion we can reexamine the premises and orientations of both cultures.
Author : Catherine Janet Berlo
Publisher : George Braziller Publishers
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 48,51 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN :
Presents seventy-six images Black Hawk drew in the 1880s, detailing the culture and religion of the Lakota Sioux.
Author : Michael Oren Fitzgerald
Publisher : World Wisdom, Inc
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 50,45 MB
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : 9781933316192
This fully revised and expanded second edition of Indian Spirit, the bestselling Native American Indian picture-and-quote book, features a new foreword by Shoshone Sun Dance Chief James Trosper.
Author : F. David Peat
Publisher : Birch Lane Press
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 25,90 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
In Ceremonies of Renewal, everything from the movement of the sun to the stability of society is in a state of flux. It is through negotiating compacts with the energies of the universe and carrying out periodic ceremonies of renewal that stability and balance can be ensured. Thus, the People of the Plains meet each year to celebrate the Sun Dance, which is performed for many days around the sacred cottonwood tree. They claim this ceremony plays its role in maintaining the harmony and balance of the cosmos. For the author, the Sun Dance became his introduction to the world of Native American science. In sacred mathematics, numbers are not abstract, static things, but living entities that transform one into the other. And history is not written down but passed on by storytellers who recount events of past generations, including migrations that took place before time as humans experienced it.
Author : Leonard Peltier
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 31,38 MB
Release : 2016-04-12
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1250119286
In September of 2022, twenty-five years after Leonard Peltier received a life sentence for the murder of two FBI agents, the DNC unanimously passed a resolution urging President Joe Biden to release him. Peltier has affirmed his innocence ever since his sentencing in 1977--his case was made fully and famously in Peter Matthiessen's bestselling In the Spirit of Crazy Horse--and many remain convinced he was wrongly convicted. Prison Writings is a wise and unsettling book, both memoir and manifesto, chronicling his life in Leavenworth Prison in Kansas. Invoking the Sun Dance, in which pain leads one to a transcendent reality, Peltier explores his suffering and the insights it has borne him. He also locates his experience within the history of the American Indian peoples and their struggles to overcome the federal government's injustices. Edited by Harvey Arden, with an Introduction by Chief Arvol Looking Horse, and a Preface by former Attorney General Ramsey Clark.
Author : Zitkala-Sa
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 45,22 MB
Release : 2005-06-01
Category : 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.
Author : Judith Fitzgerald
Publisher : World Wisdom, Inc
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 40,73 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780941532785
With a profound vision of the sacred quality of creation, this collection of beautiful photographs of the natural world combined with commentaries by a host of Christian sages of all denominations, from the origins of Christianity through the 19th century, provides answers to how we should view the relationship between the Creator and creation as well as understand how the divine activity permeates the entire universe.
