Walking in the sacred manner : healers, dreamers, and pipe carriers--medicine women of the Plains Indians /

Walking in the sacred manner : healers, dreamers, and pipe carriers--medicine women of the Plains Indians /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	St. Pierre, Mark, 1950-
Imprint:	New York : Simon & Schuster, c1995.
Description:	239 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language:	English
Subject:	Indian women -- Great Plains -- Religion. Indian women -- Great Plains -- Medicine. Women healers -- Great Plains. Indian mythology -- Great Plains. Shamanism -- Great Plains. Indian mythology. Indian women -- Medicine. Indian women -- Religion. Shamanism. Women healers. Great Plains.
Format:	E-Resource Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/1736848

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Other authors / contributors:	Long Soldier, Tilda, 1962-
ISBN:	0684802007 (alk. paper)
Notes:	"A Touchstone book." Includes bibliographical references (p. [210]-222) and index.

Table of Contents:

1. Healers, Dreamers, Pipe Carriers: Communication with the Sacred
2. All That Is, Set in Motion
3. Lakol Wicohan: Being Raised in the Indian Way
4. Adulthood
5. The Shadow World
6. Dreams and the Spirit World
7. The Calling
8. How Ritual Evolves
9. Ritual
10. Holy Women Who Are Ancestors
11. A Healing of the People.