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Quest for harmony : Native American spiritual traditions / William A. Young.

By: Publication details: New York, : Seven Bridges Press, c2002.Description: xii, 420 p. : ill. ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 1889119504
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 299/.7 21
LOC classification:
  • E98.R3 Y68 2001
Contents:
Establishing a context -- Introduction -- Native America--an historical overview -- The spiritual traditions of four Native American nations -- The Lenape (Delaware)--the grandfather nation -- The Ani'-Yun'-Wiya (Cherokee)--keeping the eternal fire burning -- The Lakota (Sioux)--the way of the sacred pipe -- The Din Ì(Navajo)--walking in beauty -- Pan-national movements and other issues -- The ghost dance--the coming of a new world -- The Native American church--peyote and pan-nationalism -- The ecocrisis and Native American spiritual traditions -- Epilogue -- Native American in the twenty-first century--looking to the future with hope.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [387]-411) and index.

Establishing a context -- Introduction -- Native America--an historical overview -- The spiritual traditions of four Native American nations -- The Lenape (Delaware)--the grandfather nation -- The Ani'-Yun'-Wiya (Cherokee)--keeping the eternal fire burning -- The Lakota (Sioux)--the way of the sacred pipe -- The Din Ì(Navajo)--walking in beauty -- Pan-national movements and other issues -- The ghost dance--the coming of a new world -- The Native American church--peyote and pan-nationalism -- The ecocrisis and Native American spiritual traditions -- Epilogue -- Native American in the twenty-first century--looking to the future with hope.

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