Spirituality & Religion

There have been many Clayton Thomas-Mullers: The child who played with toy planes as an escape from domestic and sexual abuse, enduring the intergenerational trauma of Canada's residential school system; the angry youngster who defended himself with...

Spirit & Reason is a collection of the works of one of the most important thinkers of the twentieth century—Vine Deloria, Jr. Author of such classics as Red Earth, White Lies, and God is Red, Deloria takes readers on a...

Recently identified as a killer, tobacco has been the focus of health warnings, lawsuits, and political controversy. Yet many Native Americans continue to view tobacco-when used properly-as a life-affirming and sacramental substance that plays a...

This book presents the James R. Walker collection of traditional Lakota knowledge. Walker spent eighteen years in South Dakota as a physician on the Pine Ridge Reservation, the home of the Oglala Sioux. From 1896 until 1914, he collected material...

Religion and Culture in Native America presents an introduction to a diverse array of Indigenous religious and cultural practices in North America, focusing on those issues in which tribal communities themselves are currently invested.  These topics...

With each generation, we have drifted further and further away from our ability to recognize and connect with the source of our original design. In this modern world, we spend our attention in ways that benefit the powers that be, and not ourselves or...

Make a pilgrimage into your soul... 365 DAYS OF WALKING THE RED ROAD captures the priceless ancient knowledge Native American elders have passed on from generation to generation for centuries and shows you how to move positively down your personal road...

The religious fervor known as the Ghost Dance movement was precipitated by the prophecies and teachings of a northern Paiute named Wovoka (Jack Wilson). During a solar eclipse on New Year's day, 1889, Wovoka experienced a revelation that promised...

"This is my prayer that, through our sacred pipe and through this book in which I shall explain what our pipe really is, peace may come to those peoples who can understand, an understanding which must be of the heart and not of the head alone." ~Black...

A broad range of perspectives from Natives and non-Natives makes this book the most complete account and analysis of the Lakota Ghost Dance ever published. A revitalization movement that swept across Native communities of the West in the late 1880's, the...

This book is an excellent overview of Lakota religious thought and practice, introducing readers to it's essential components.Through finely detailed descriptions of rituals and various types of religious figures, the author explains the significance of...

Eagle Elk’s story of his life, practice, and beliefs provides a uniquely introspective, demystified, and informative look at the career of a traditional Native American healer. We learn how a persistent vision and recurring visits by thunder...

For the residents of the Pine Ridge Sioux reservation in South Dakota, mainstream medical care is often supplemented or replaced by a host of traditional practice: the Sun Dance, herbalism, the Sioux Religion, the peyotism of the Native American Church,...

"I am Crow Dog, I am the fourth of that name. Crow Dogs have played a big part in the history of our tribe and in the history of all the Indian nations of the Great Plains during the last two hundred years. We are still making history."Thus opens the...