[PDF] The Lakota Ritual Of The Sweat Lodge eBook

Author : Raymond A. Bucko
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 10,94 MB
Release : 1998-04-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780803264526

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For centuries, a persistent and important component of Lakota religious life has been the Inipi, the ritual of the sweat lodge. The sweat lodge has changed little in appearance since its first recorded description in the late seventeenth century. The ritual itself consists of songs, prayers, and other actions conducted in a tightly enclosed, dark, and extremely hot environment. Participants who “sweat” together experience moral strengthening, physical healing, and the renewal of social and cultural bonds. Today, the sweat lodge ritual continues to be a vital part of Lakota religion. It has also been open to use, often controversial, by non-Indians. The ritual has recently become popular among Lakotas recovering from alcohol and drug addiction. This study is the first in-depth look at the history and significance of the Lakota sweat lodge. Bringing together data culled from historical sources and fieldwork on Pine Ridge Reservation, Raymond A. Bucko provides a detailed discussion of continuity and changes in the “sweat” ritual over time. He offers convincing explanations for the longevity of the ceremony and its continuing popularity.

Author : Chief Archie Fire Lame Deer
Publisher : Destiny Books
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 39,96 MB
Release : 1993-10-01
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9780892814565

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This book and beautifully illustrated deck draw on the ancient Lakota ritual of healing and purification known as the sacred Inipi, or sweat lodge ceremony, which has existed in the Lakota culture for thousands of years. The cards and accompanying book comprise a self-contained and highly original system that will help you harness creative energies to deal with issues that are of concern in your life. Used for self-discovery rather than divination, the cards gently guide you toward inner growth and self-knowledge in the time-honored tradition of the Lakota people. Fifty cards, illustrated in vibrant color, access the powerful symbols and teachings of the Inipi, capturing the spirit of this ancient ceremony. In a variety of spreads the authors show you how the cards can provide you with an expanded vision of your being and purpose, offering an intimate sense of walking in balance between the conscious world and the world of spirit. Publication coincides with the U.N. Year of Indigenous People. Archie Fire Lame Deer is one of the leaders of the Native American spirituality movement.

Author : Irene McGarvie
Publisher : Nixon-Carre Limited
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 12,94 MB
Release : 2009-01
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9780973747065

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McGarvie presents a non-native guide to understanding, participating in, and benefiting from Native American Sweat Lodge Ceremonies. She covers how to build a Sweat Lodge, and explains the basics of Native American religious practices, including the significance of totem animals.

Author : James R. Walker
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 41,48 MB
Release : 1980-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780803298675

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"The real value of Lakota Belief and Ritual is that it provides raw narratives without any pretension of synthesis or analysis, as well as insightful biographical information on the man who contributed more than any other individual to our understanding of early Oglala ritual and belief." Plains Anthropologist"In the writing of Indian history, historians and other scholars seldom have the opportunity to look at the past through 'native eyes' or to immerse themselves in documents created by Indians. For the Oglala and some of the other divisions of the Lakota, the Walker materials provide this kind of experience in fascinating and rich detail during an important transition period in their history." Minnesota History"This collection of documents is especially remarkable because it preserves individual variations of traditional wisdom from a whole generation of highly developed wicasa wakan (holy men). . . . Lakota Belief and Ritual is a wasicun (container of power) that can make traditional Lakota wisdom assume new life." American Indian Quarterly"A work of prime importance. . . . its publication represents a major addition to our knowledge of the Lakotas' way of life" Journal of American FolkloreRaymond J. DeMallie, director of the American Indian Studies Research Institute and a professor of anthropology at Indiana University, is the editor of James R. Walker's Lakota Society (1982) and of The Sixth Grandfather: Black Elk's Teachings Given to John G. Neihardt (1984, a Bison Book), both published by the University of Nebraska Press. Elaine A. Jahner, a professor of English at Dartmouth College, has edited Walker's Lakota Myth (1983), also a Bison Book.

Author : Joseph Bruchac
Publisher : Freedom [Calif.] : Crossing Press
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 12,63 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Indians of North America
ISBN : 9780895946362

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Explains the history, the meaning and the use of the sweat lodge.

Author : Black Elk
Publisher : Civilization of the American I
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 32,47 MB
Release : 1989
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780806121246

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An account of how the Oglala Sioux have come to know God, nature, and their fellow men.

Author : Stephen E. Feraca
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 15,21 MB
Release : 2001-03-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780803269057

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Wakinyan is an excellent overview of Lakota religious thought and practice, introducing readers to its essential components. Through finely detailed descriptions of rituals and various types of religious figures, Stephen E. Feraca explains the significance of such practices as the Sun Dance, sweat lodge ritual, vision quest, Yuwipi ritual, and peyote use. He also discusses the significance of herbs and religious artifacts and objects and explains the roles and responsibilities of medicine men and other religious practitioners. First written as a report for the Department of the Interior in 1963, Wakinyan has long been recognized as a classic study of Lakota religion. This edition retains most of the original text, with its first-rate ethnographic descriptions of religious practices. The author's new endnotes bring the reader up to date on changes in Lakota religion during the last three decades.

Author : David Posthumus
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 28,91 MB
Release : 2022-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1496230396

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All My Relatives demonstrates the significance of a new animist framework for understanding North American indigenous culture and history and how an expanded notion of personhood serves to connect otherwise disparate and inaccessible elements of Lakota ethnography.

Author : Fritz Detwiler
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 47,72 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 : Archie Fire Lame Deer
Publisher : Bear
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 46,34 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780939680870

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A modern Dakota Indian medicine man recounts his life and spiritual experiences.