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Spirit wars : Native North American religions in the age of nation building
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Spirit wars : Native North American religions in the age of nation building

Author: Ronald Niezen; Manley A Begay; et al
Publisher: Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2000.
Edition/Format:   Book : State or province government publication : EnglishView all editions and formats
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An exploration of the ways in which the destruction of spiritual practices and beliefs of native peoples in North America has led to conditions of collective suffering - a process sometimes referred  Read more...

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Material Type: Government publication, State or province government publication
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Ronald Niezen; Manley A Begay; et al
ISBN: 0520209850 9780520209855 0520219872 9780520219878 0520219864 9780520219861
OCLC Number: 42667827
Description: xviii, 256 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents: 1. Introduction --
2. The Conquest of Souls. The Pueblo Revolt of 1680. Epidemics and the "Black Robes" of New France. Puritans and "Praying Indians" in New England. Prelude to Nation Building --
The Pequots' Conversion to Christianity / Kim Burgess --
3. Learning to Forget. Enlightenment and Evolutionism. The Origins of the Indian Residential School. Residential Education in Canada. The Hidden Catastrophe --
The Way of the Dine' Still Sustains Us / Manley Begay, Jr. --
4. Medical Evangelism. Contrasting Styles of Healing. Mission Programs, Federal Intervention, and Regional Autonomy. Sorrow and Forgetting --
Hearing Voices: Gwich'in Athabaskan Perceptions of Spirit Invasion and Recovery / Phyllis Fast --
5. The Politics of Repression. The Ghost Dance Religion and the Suppression of Prophecy. The Potlatch Laws. The Peyote Religion and Its Enemies. Transgressions of Sacred Space --
Native Spiritual Traditions and the Tribal State: The Oklahoma Choctaws in the Late Twentieth Century / Valerie Long Lambert --
6. The Collectors. Ethnological Collecting. Desecration and the Growth of Museums. Bones and Spirits. Repatriation --
Dialogue or Diatribe? Indians and Archaeologists in the Post-NAGPRA Era / Michael Wilcox --
7. Apostles of the New Age. Wild Men of Ideas. The Oral and the Written. Invention and Authenticity. Suffering and Redemption --
Medicine Wheelers and Dealers / Bernard C. Perley --
8. Conclusions.
Responsibility: Ronald Niezen ; with contributions by Manley Begay, Jr. ... [et al.].
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