Joseph Epes Brown: 2 books
Teaching Spirits
Understanding Native American Religious Traditions
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2010
Teaching Spirits offers a thematic approach to Native American religious traditions. Through years of living with and learning about Native traditions across the continent, Joseph Epes Brown learned firsthand of the great diversity of the North American Indian cultures. Yet within this great multiplicity,...
The Sacred Pipe: Black Elk's Account of the Seven Rites of the Oglala Sioux
Black Elk's Account of the Seven Rites of the Oglala Sioux
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2012
Black Elk of the Sioux has been recognized as one of the truly remarkable men of his time in the matter of religious belief and practice. Shortly before his death in August, 1950, when he was the "keeper of the sacred pipe," he said, "It is my prayer that, through our sacred pipe, and...