[PDF] Cosmology And Moral Community In The Lakota Sun Dance eBook

Author : Fritz Detwiler
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 12,3 MB
Release : 2021-12-30
Category : History
ISBN : 1000536262

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Drawing on Indigenous methodologies, this book uses a close analysis of James R. Walker’s 1917 monograph on the Lakota Sun Dance to explore how the Sun Dance communal ritual complex – the most important Lakota ceremony – creates moral community, providing insights into the cosmology and worldview of Lakota tradition. The book uses Walker’s primary source to conduct a reading of the Sun Dance in its nineteenth-century context through the lenses of Lakota metaphysics, cosmology, ontology, and ethics. The author argues that the Sun Dance constitutes a cosmic ethical drama in which persons of all types – human and nonhuman – come together in reciprocal actions and relationships. Drawing on contemporary animist theory and a perspectivist approach that uses Lakota worldview assumptions as the basis for analysis, the book enables a richer understanding of the Sun Dance and its role in the Lakota moral world. Offering a nuanced understanding that centers Lakota views of the sacred, this book will be relevant to scholars of religion and animism, and all those interested in Native American cultures and lifeways.

Author : Mark Hollabaugh
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 20,52 MB
Release : 2017-06-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1496200403

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Published in cooperation with the American Indian Studies Research Institute, Indiana University, Bloomington.

Author : Michael Hull
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 16,7 MB
Release : 2000-10-01
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 1594775400

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A powerful story of one man's redemption through the Lakota Sun Dance ceremony. • Written by the only white man to be confirmed as a Sundance Chief by traditional Lakota elders. • Includes forewords by prominent Lakota spiritual leaders Leonard Crow Dog, Charles Chipps, Mary Thunder, and Jamie Sams. The Sun Dance is the largest and most important ceremony in the Lakota spiritual tradition, the one that ensures the life of the people for another year. In 1988 Michael Hull was extended an invitation to join in a Sun Dance by Lakota elder Leonard Crow Dog-- a controversial action because Hull is white. This was the beginning of a spiritual journey that increasingly interwove the life of the author with the people, process, and elements of Lakota spirituality. On this journey on the Red Road, Michael Hull confronted firsthand the transformational power of Lakota spiritual practice and the deep ambivalence many Indians had about opening their ceremonies to a white man. Sun Dancing presents a profound look at the elements of traditional Lakota ceremonial practice and the ways in which ceremony is regarded as life-giving by the Lakota. Through his commitment to following the Red Road, Michael Hull gradually won acceptance in a community that has rejected other attempts by white America to absorb its spiritual practices, leading to the extraordinary step of his confirmation as a Sun Dance Chief by Leonard Crow Dog and other Lakota spiritual leaders.

Author : Thomas Yellowtail
Publisher : World Wisdom, Inc
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 36,17 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781933316277

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Thomas Yellowtail-one of the most admired American Indian spiritual leaders of the last century-reveals the mystical beauty of the ancient Sun Dance ceremony, which still remains at the center of the spiritual life of the Plains Indians.

Author : Clyde Holler
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 18,38 MB
Release : 1995-11-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780815626763

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In this religious history of the spiritual life of the great Lakota leader Black Elk, Clyde Holler reconstructs the development of the Lakota Sun Dance—the central religious ritual of the Lakota tradition, which is essential to understanding Black Elk's thought. This comprehensive study of the dance, which was banned by the U.S. government in 1883, shows how Black Elk adapted the dance to the conditions and circumstances of reservation life and reinterpreted it in terms commensurate with Christianity. A creative thinker, rather than a passive informant on his people's past, Black Elk was both a sincere traditionalist and a sincere Christian, seeing the two religious traditions as expressions of the sacred. Through a firsthand account of the dance associated with Frank Fools Crow at Three Mile Camp, near Kyle, South Dakota, the author demonstrates how the contemporary Sun Dance reflects Black Elk's vision. Holler's book is a penetrating model of philosophical engagement with native North American religion that is carried out in close dialogue with anthropology. Readers who were captivated by John G. Neihardt's gripping portrait of Black Elk in Black Elk Speaks may be surprised to learn that he was a vital and creative leader until his death in 1950, and not the broken, despairing old man made famous by Neihardt. As the greatest native American religious thinker of North America, much has been written about Black Elk, his life and influence; but of those works, Roller's is likely to stand out as the most capacious in breadth and analysis.

Author : James R. Walker
Publisher :
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 25,68 MB
Release : 1917
Category : Social Science
ISBN :

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As agency physician on the Pine Ridge Reservation from 1896 to 1914, Dr. James R. Walker recorded a wealth of information on the traditional lifeways of the Oglala Sioux.

Author : Manny Twofeathers
Publisher : Hyperion
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 24,40 MB
Release : 1996-07-25
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780786862153

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A Native American spiritual elder and healer describes the ritual of the sundance, the most sacred event of the Shoshoni and Lakota people, recounts the many dances he has witnessed, and explains many other Lakota customs.

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Publisher : Greenwood
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 10,74 MB
Release : 1998-06-30
Category : History
ISBN :

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The Sun Dance is still performed by some Plains Indians in America, even though it was outlawed by the government in 1904. This bibliography provides a listing of sources on the Sun Dance. The purpose of the annotated bibliography is to serve researchers, including American Indians, in learning more about the Sun Dance religion and ceremony of the Plains Indians. It is intended that this guide will be useful to tribal researchers, college and high school students doing library research for term papers, and to advanced researchers seeking in-depth materials for scholarly publications and field work. It is hoped that this compilation will lead to increased knowledge and appreciation of the Sun Dance -- from Pref.

Author : Pierre Charbonnier
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 41,8 MB
Release : 2016-12-22
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 178348859X

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An advanced introduction to the new philosophical anthropology and an understanding of the most contemporary developments in it.