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BOOK OF THE HOPI:
The first revelation of the Hopi's historical and religious world-view of life
by Frank Waters. B&W drawings and source material by Oswald White Ber Fredericks. Condition: UNREAD 1977 Ballantine paperback, 11th printing. B&W photo section. Light edgewear & shelfwear. Interior clean & tight. Series of think binder's glue strings down spine. Content: In this strange and wonderful book, thirty elders of the ancient Hopi tribe of Northern Arizona--a people who regard themselves as the first inhabitants of America--freely reveal the Hopi worldview for the first time in written form. The Hopi kept this view a secret for countless centuries, and anthropologists have long struggled to understand it. Now they record their myths and legends, and the meaning of their religious rituals and ceremonies, as a gift to future generations. Here is a reassertion of a rhythm of life we have tragically repressed; and a reminder that we must attune ourselves to the need for inner change if we are to avert a cataclysmic rupture between our minds and hearts. One of the great classics in American anthropology. [1 copy available]
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CHANGING WOMAN OF THE APACHE: Women's Lives in past and Present
(American Indian Experience series)
by Sydele E. Golston. B&W photos illustrate Condition: NEW 1996 Franklin Watts hardcover & DJ (in mylar jacket) first edition, first printing. Content: This colorful and sensitive exploration of the Changing Woman ceremony of the Apache as it has been celebrated today provides a deep look into traditional and contemporary Apache history, culture, and society, and at the important role of women in tribal life - past and present. Celebrates not only the participant in this ritual but Apache women and their exploits in the past with wonderful era photos. [1 copy available]
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THE DANCING HEALERS: A Doctor's Journey of Healing with Native Americans
by Carl A. Hammerschlag, M.D. Hopi healing arts cover art by Dennis Numkena. Condition: NEW 1988 HarperSanFrancisco hardcover & DJ (in mylar jacket), 8th printing. Content: The author spent 20 years as a physician working among Native Americans in the Southwest. He began with a conventional medical outlook but grew to regard the traditional Indian ways of ritual, healing, and dying with awe and admiration. This is a glowing personal account of his experiences, which he claims have enabled him to meld Jewish and Native American spiritual concepts and become a "dancing healer," one who is able to help others pursue the meaning and wisdom of life and cure their diseases. [1 copy available]
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HEAD AND FACE MASKS IN NAVAJO CEREMONIALISM
by Father Bernard Haile. Condition: NEW 1995 University of Utah Press Trade Paperback reprint of a 1947 work. Color plate section. Content: Father Haile (d. 1955) spent a lifetime studying and recording Navajo ceremonial practices. His ethnographic work was held in wide regard by contemporary anthropologists, and he is still commonly cited by present-day students of Navajo ceremonialism. Originally issued in a limited edition, the book presents information on masks and their uses, most of it obtained in 1908 from one family of singers and supplemented over the following forty years. It offers a detailed account of the necessary attributes of Navajo masks and their construction. At the heart of the book is a day-by-day account of the nine-day Nightway healing practice, now the primary ceremony in which masks are used. Essential Navajo study. (2 copies available)
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THE SNAKE DANCE OF THE HOPI INDIANS
by Earle R. Forrest. Condition: UNREAD, but not perfect, c. 1960 Tower paperback, no printing given. Light edgewear with moderate tanning to interior pages. Very readable. Content: Every summer, as the did long before the white man came to America, the Hopis of northern Arizona gather to perform one of the world's strangest rituals - The Snake Dance. Holding deadly rattlesnakes in their arms and mouths, Hopi dancers petition the gods for life-giving rain. Here is the background, meaning, and significance of this fascinating Native American ritual. [Forrest spent time in Hopi villages (with his camera) in 1906.] [1 copy available]
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SUN DANCE: The 50th Anniversary Crow Indian Sun Dance
by Michael Crummett. Foreword by Heywood Big Day. Color & B&W photos (contemporary) by the author. Condition: UNREAD 1994 Falcon Press (Montana) soft cover, first printing. Content: The summer of 1991 marked a special point on the wheel of time for Crow medicine man Heywood Big Day. It was 50 years earlier that his father sponsored the first Crow Indian Sun Dance of modern times, reestablishing this sacred tradition of the Crow poeple. To commemorate that event, Big Day held the 50th Anniversary dance on the same site used by his father in 1941. He persuaded his friend Michael Crummett to document the ceremony in words and photographs. Excellent historical document of one Sun Dance and not intended to be a detailed history or study of the original Sun Dance. [1 copy available]
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LAKOTA BELIEF AND RITUAL
by James R. Walker. Condition: Good + 1991 University of Nebraska Trade Paperback, first edition, first printing. The thin "plastic" covering has some peeling. Edgewear, spine crease and a few underlined pages. B&W photos and color photo section. Content: "Primary research materials; an essential history. This is a book rich in oral history & was recorded at the a time when there were First Nations members who had the personal experiences of a lifetime and whose tradition was an oral tradition. Dr. Walker collected and preserved this oral history in the face of the destruction of most First Nation's cultures. The narratives are all excellent and there are 90 + documents containing those first-person narratives along with several photographs. This edition has an extensive appendices, including an extensive (modern) bibliography." [1 copy available]
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MASKED GODS: Navaho and Pueblo Ceremonialsm
by Frank Waters. B&W illustrations by Ralph Douglass. Condition: Very Good 1973 Ballantine paperback second printing. Small edgewear to bottom spine with tanning to page edges. Binder's glue strings down spine. I actually think this book has not been read. Content: Following a history of the Indians through the centuries of conquest, this book turns inward to the meaning of Indian legends and rituals - Navaho sings, Rio Grand Pueblo dances, Zuni kachina ceremonies. Enduring still, these rituals and ceremonies express a view of life, of man's place in the creation, which is compared with Taoism, Buddhism -- and with the aggressive individualism of the Western world. This is one of those "must-read" anthropology books upon which others have built. [1 copy available]
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MASKED GODS: Navaho and Pueblo Ceremonialsm
by Frank Waters. B&W illustrations by Ralph Douglass. Condition: NEW 1984 edition Swallow Press Trade Paperback, 4th printing. Short diagonal crease bottom front cover corner (I dropped the book - DUH!) and small edgewear bottom spine. Interior perfect. Content: Following a history of the Indians through the centuries of conquest, this book turns inward to the meaning of Indian legends and rituals - Navaho sings, Rio Grand Pueblo dances, Zuni kachina ceremonies. Enduring still, these rituals and ceremonies express a view of life, of man's place in the creation, which is compared with Taoism, Buddhism -- and with the aggressive individualism of the Western world. This is one of those "must-read" anthropology books upon which others have built. [1 copy available]
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NATIVE AMERICAN COURTSHIP AND MARRIAGE TRADITIONS
by Leslie Gourse. B&W decorations. Condition: NEW 2000 Hippocrene Books hardcover & DJ (in mylar jacket), first edition, first printing. Content: This helpful guide is for couples who wish to adapt and incorporate aspects of traditional Native American marriage customs, clothing, jewelry,and crafts into their modern ceremonies. Descriptions of weddings of the Hopi, Lakota, Iroquois, Oglala and others provide a historic sense of Native traditions. Included are love songs, poems, and stories from the Dakota, Shoshone, Zuni, and Algonquin. There are also recipes for traditional dishes to serve at the receptions. Questions welcome. [2 copies available]
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OGLALA RELIGION
by William K. Powers. B&W photos & charts illustrate. Condition: NEW 1986 Bison Press Trade Paperback, 6th priting. Content: This study seeks to explain how one group of Native Americans, the Oglala Sioux, has preserved its social and cultural identity despite formidable attempts by the U.S. government to eliminate tribal societies. Treating continuity and change as two aspects of the same phenomenon, it focuses on the nature of the uniquely Oglala values that persist, their modes of cultural expression, and the processes by which they are replicated. William K. Powers is a professor of anthropology at Livingston College, Rutgers University. He is the author of many articles and books, including Yuwipi. Questions welcome. [1 copy available]
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PEYOTE HUNT: The Sacred Journey of the Huichol Indians
by Barbara G. Myerhoff. B&W photos. Condition: UNREAD 1976 Cornell University Press Trade Paperback, first printing. Tiny tanning to white cover edges - otherwise perfect. Content: This study is based on observation, verbatim texts of myths, ethnographic data, participation in the rituals, and other publications of Huichol ethnology. The peyote complex is expertly set in the wider context of Huichol religion, society, and theory. "This is a beautiful book, recording with loving care how one thoughtful Huichol Indian wanted to see the world." Fascinating! [1 copy available]
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PEYOTE RELIGION: A History
by Omer C. Stewart. B&W era photos illustrate. Condition: NEW 1993 University of Oklahoma Trade Paperback, 5th printing. Content: The Native American Church is the most rapidly growing religious movement on Western Indian reservations. Because the consumption of peyote, a hallucinogenic cactus, is central, the religion has been controversial since its start as an organized faith in the 1800s. Stewart chronicles the church's history from its early roots in Mexico through official recognition in the 20th century. He discusses the church's leaders, its role in Indian unification, and its importance as a response to the pressures of white America. [2 copies available]
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RAINBOW TRIBE: Ordinary People Journeying on the Red Road
by Ed McGaa, Eagle Man. B&W illustrations by Barbara Coast. Condition: NEW 1992 HarperSanFrancisco Trade Paperback, first edition, first printing. Content: [Note: I firmly believe this book should be listed in "New Age" sections, but . . .] This is a book of natural-way philosophy. In order to save the planet, the author urges us to return to nature and develop a spiritual relationship with nature. He believes that the earliest Americans--especially the Sioux--achieved this path to enlightenment. Those who follow this path are called the Rainbow Tribe. Owing to the renewed interest in Native Americans and the current emphasis on healing the earth, the author's new insight into the need for spiritual connection will be welcomed. [1 copy available]
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RELIGIONS OF THE AMERICAN INDIANS
by Ake Hultkrantz. Translated from the Swedish by Monica Setterwall. B&W era photos & art work. Condition: UNREAD, but not perfect, 1981 University of California Press Trade Paperback, third printing. Although unread, thre is a name on the frontispiece. The rest of the book is clean, tight, perfect. Content: A clearly written, sober, comprehensive survey. Hultkrantz is a notable Swedish scholar, active int he field for over 25 years. Here he summarizes the gigantic corpus of modern anthropological scholarship on Amerindian religion (of both continents, but primarily North America), dealing first with tribal religions, and then with the religions of the "American high culture" (Incas, Mayas, Aztecs, and related peoples). A highly useful and reliable guide. - Kirkus Reviews. Questions welcome. [1 copy available]
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THE SACRED PATH: Spells, Prayers & Power Songs of the American Indians
edited by John Bierhorst. B&W drawings. Condition: UNREAD, but not perfect, 1984 Quill Trade Paperback, 6th printing. Light edgewear. Content: The prayers and songs in this book emphasize the relationship between the life of the individual and the power of the spoken word. Arranged as the progression of a human life, beginning with chants to ease the labor of an expectant mother, the selections narrate a journey through birth and infancy, puberty, adulthood, and old age. The underlying belief, shared by native American cultures as different as the Cherokee and the Aztec, is that language, like the forces of nature, can bring about change. If uttered at the proper moment and in proper combinations, words can ward off disease, control the movements of a loved one, exorcise a ghost, and, in short, enable the user to deal with the crisis that arise at each stage of life. A wonderful book! [1 copy available]
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SPIRITS OF THE EARTH: A Guide to Native American Nature Symbols, Stories, and Ceremonies
by Bobby Lake-Thom. Line drawings by J. Guadalupe Gonzalez-Diaz. Condition: NEW 1997 Plume soft cover, 5th printing. Thin remainder mark bottom edges. Text and line drawings are in brown & white on "beige" paper. Very attractive. Content: Native Americans believe that animal spirits can ultimately influence everyday lives. Lake-Thom, a healer and a descendant of three Native American tribes, combines his own experience, work with tribal elders, and readings from folk tales to explain the significance of good- and bad-luck symbols to these tribes. For instance, the hummingbird is considered to be a good-luck messenger that can carry a person's prayers to the Creator; in contrast, the owl is considered a sign of bad luck and a messenger of death. In a clear and straightforward writing style, the author defines symbols such as the turtle, bear, and coyote for Karuk, Seneca, and Cherokee tribes. He also includes several chapters on how one can get in touch with animal spirits through active participation in ceremonies and establishing sacred places. There is a helpful index and accompanying sketches. [1 copy available]
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