American Indian

SUGGESTIONS FOR FURTHER READING

Brown, Joseph Epes. Teaching Spirits: Understanding Native American Religious Tradition. New York: Oxford University Press, 2001. A comprehensive look at Native American religions including topics such as geography, creativity, and ritual.

DeLoria, Vine, Jr. God Is Red: A Native View of Religion. New York: Dell Publishing Company, 2003. A seminal work on Native American spirituality from a Native perspective.

Gill, Sam. Native American Religions: An Introduction. Boston: Thomson Wadsworth, 2005.

Hirschfelder, Arlene, and Paulette Molin. An Encyclopedia of Native American Religions. New York: Facts on File, 1992. A useful encyclopedia with detailed entries on many aspects of Native American religious belief and practice.

Kehoe, Alice Beck. The Ghost Dance: Ethnohistory and Revitalization. Long Grove, IL: Waveland Press, 2006. A detailed look at the Ghost Dance in its cultural and historical context.

LaPier, Rosalyn R. Invisible Realities: Storytellers, Storytakers, and the Supernatural World of the Blackfeet. Omaha: University of Nebraska Press, 2017.

Neihardt, John G., and Black Elk. Black Elk Speaks: Being the Life Story of a Holy Man of the Oglala Sioux. Omaha: University of Nebraska Press, 1961. An intimate account of the religious visions and worldview of the Lakota religious leader Black Elk.

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ONLINE RESOURCES

Montana Two Spirit Society

https://www.mttwospirit.org/about-us

Informative website of an advocacy organization for Two Spirit and LGBTQ issues.

National Museum of the American Indian

nmai.si.edu

This museum, part of the Smithsonian Institution, has many materials about the research collection online.

National Archives

archives.gov/research/alic/reference/native-americans.html

This portal page at the website of the National Archives leads to the Archives’ research materials on federally recognized tribes.

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LIST OF KEY TERMS

American Indian Religious Freedom Act axis mundi

Black Elk

Changing Woman

chantways

cry ceremonies

Ghost Dance

hogan

Holy People

Holy Wind

Jump Dance

kachinas

Kinaalda

Mabel McKay

Native American Church

peyote

Popol Vuh

Quanah Parker

Quetzalcoatl

rites of passage

rites of renewal

sand painting

Sun Dance

sweat lodge

tipi

trickster

Two Spirit vision quest Wovoka