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Walking in the Sacred Manner: Healers, Dreamers, and Pipe Carriers--Medicine

Walking in the Sacred Manner: Healers, Dreamers, and Pipe Carriers--Medicine Women of the Plains Paperback / softback - 1995

by Mark St.Pierre

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In this brilliantly illuminating book, the authors explore how women are called to be shamans, the special status of female healers within the community, and the traditional rituals and healing methods they practice. 8 pages of photos.

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Paperback / softback. New. A portrait of the role of women in the spiritual and religious life of the Plains Indians community emerges from interviews with holy women and their families, showing the special status of female healers and destroying Native American stereotypes. Original. 30,000 first printing.
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  • Title Walking in the Sacred Manner: Healers, Dreamers, and Pipe Carriers--Medicine Women of the Plains
  • Author Mark St.Pierre
  • Binding Paperback / softback
  • Edition [ Edition: Repri
  • Condition New
  • Pages 240
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Touchstone Books, New York
  • Date 1995-05-30
  • Features Bibliography, Index
  • Bookseller's Inventory # B9780684802008
  • ISBN 9780684802008 / 0684802007
  • Weight 0.66 lbs (0.30 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.24 x 6.22 x 0.58 in (23.47 x 15.80 x 1.47 cm)
  • Themes
    • Ethnic Orientation: Native American
  • Library of Congress subjects Indian women - Great Plains - Religion, Indian women - Great Plains - Medicine
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 95006393
  • Dewey Decimal Code 299.798

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From the rear cover

Walking in the Sacred Manner is an exploration of the myths and culture of the Plains Indians, for whom the everyday and the spiritual are intertwined and women play a strong and important role in the spiritual and religious life of the community. Based on extensive first-person interviews by an established expert on Plains Indian women, Walking in the Sacred Manner is a singular and authentic record of the participation of women in the sacred traditions of Northern Plains tribes, including Lakota, Cheyenne, Crow, and Assiniboine. Through interviews with holy women and the families of women healers, Mark St. Pierre and Tilda Long Soldier paint a rich and varied portrait of a society and its traditions. Stereotypical images of the Native American drop away as the voices, dreams, and experiences of these women (both healers and healed) present insight into a culture about which little is known. It is a journey into the past, an exploration of the present, and a view full of hope for the future.

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About the author

Mark St. Pierre is the author of Madonna Swan: A Lakota Woman's Story. He is an adjunct professor of sociology, anthropology, and creative writing at Regis University in Steamboat Springs, Colorado. St. Pierre has spent twenty years living and learning among the Lakota.