Description:
Seven Arrows by Hyemeyohsts StormPublisher: Ballantine Books, 1975
ISBN is 9780345247001 / 0345247000
Paperback
8.1 x 9.2 inches, 374 pages
Lots of black and white photos and several beautiful color illustrations.
This book is about the Plains Indian People and the Medicine Wheel.
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Charles Storm, pen name Hyemeyohsts Storm, was the son of a German immigrant who claimed to be Cheyenne; he misappropriated and misrepresented Native American teachings and symbols from a variety of different cultures, such as some symbolism connected to the Plains Sun dance, to create the modern Medicine Wheel symbol around 1972.
Subsequently Vincent LaDuke (a New Age spiritual leader going by the name Sun Bear), who was of Ojibwe descent, started also using the Medicine Wheel symbol, combining the basic concept with pieces of disparate spiritual practices from various First Nations cultures, and adding elements of new age and occult spiritualism. LaDuke self-published a newsletter and several… Read More