The World We Used to Live in: Remembering the Powers of the Medicine Men,9781555915643

The World We Used to Live in: Remembering the Powers of the Medicine Men

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ISBN13: 9781555915643
ISBN10: 1555915647
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2006-03-01
Publisher(s): Fulcrum Publishing
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Summary

"In his final work, the Native American scholar Vine Deloria Jr. takes us into the realm of the spiritual and reveals through eyewitness accounts the immense power of medicine men. The World We Used to Live In, a collection of anecdotes from tribes across the country, explores everything from healing miracles and sacred rituals to Navajos who could move the sun. In this work, which draws upon a lifetime of scholarship, Deloria shows us how ancient powers fit into our modern understanding of science and the cosmos, and how future generations may draw strength from the old ways."--BOOK JACKET.

Author Biography

Vine Deloria Jr. was named by TIME magazine as one of the greatest religious thinkers of the twentieth century. He was a leading Native American scholar whose research, writings, and teachings on history, law, religion, and political science have not only changed the face of Indian country, but stand to influence future generations of Native and non-Native Americans alike. He has authored many acclaimed books, including Evolution, Creationism, and Other Modern Myths; Red Earth, White Lies; God is Red; Spirit and Reason and Custer Died for Your Sins. Vine Deloria Jr. passed away on November 13, 2005.

Table of Contents

Preface xiii
Philip J. Deloria
Prologue: Traditional Religion Today xvii
Introduction: The Universe of Spirits xxiii
Dreams---The Approach of the Sacred
1(42)
Eagle Shield's Dream
2(1)
Brave Buffalo's Dream about the Elks
3(2)
Black Elk's Dream/Vision
5(1)
The Dangers of Daydreaming
6(1)
George Schmidt's Daydream
6(2)
Shared Dreams
8(1)
The Sacred Intrusion
9(4)
Goose's Experience
10(1)
Bush's Buffalo Spirits
11(2)
Horn Chips's Blessing
13(1)
The Nature of the Medicine Man
13(3)
Lone Man---Teton Sioux
15(1)
Men's Vision Quest Experiences
16(15)
Siya'ka Explaining the Vision Quest
18(2)
Lame Deer, a Brule Sioux Medicine Man, Explaining the Vision Quest
20(1)
Lame Deer's Experience
20(1)
The Jesuit Account of the Vision Quest
21(2)
Siya'ka's Vision
23(2)
Two Leggings's Vision
25(3)
Blows Down's Vision
28(1)
Smoking Star's Name
29(1)
Le Borgne's Vision
30(1)
Women's Vision Quest Experiences
31(8)
Catherine Wabose's Vision
31(4)
Pretty Shield's Vision
35(1)
A Pawnee Woman's Dream
36(1)
Another Pawnee Woman's Visions
36(1)
Mary Sdipp-shin-mah's Vision
37(2)
Visions in Transition
39(4)
John Slocum's Vision
40(1)
Minnie Enemy Heart's Vision
41(2)
Powers Conferred on the Medicine Men
43(40)
Healings
43(4)
Thunder Cloud Receives Healing Powers
44(1)
Navajo Diagnosticians
45(2)
Finding the Cure
47(2)
Dr. Perry of Massachusetts
49(8)
Sitting Bull's Self Remedy
50(1)
White Crow's Healing
51(1)
Instant Nautical Healing
52(1)
Reviving the Dead
52(1)
Northern Barred Owl's Remedy
53(2)
Healing Severe Gunshot Wounds
55(1)
Black Elk's Experience
56(1)
Eagle Shield's Triumph
56(1)
Omaha Buffalo Medicine Men
57(8)
Beyond Hope
60(1)
Healing Witchcraft
60(1)
Southwestern Healing Practices
61(1)
Pawnee Injury and Treatment Incidents
62(1)
Sun's Road's Discovery and Recovery
63(1)
Plenty Crows's, A Famous Medicine Man of the Cheyenne, Healing
64(1)
The Horse Doctor
65(2)
Locating Lost Objects
67(8)
Goose Finds a Rifle
67(1)
White Shield's Tasks
68(2)
Bear Necklace's Stones
70(2)
Young Bird's Psychic Powers
72(1)
John Fornsby's Guardian Power Boards
72(3)
Dr. Jim's Song
75(1)
Unusual Predictions
75(8)
Predicting for the French Soldiers
76(1)
The Tobacco Prediction
76(2)
Predicting the Traders' Arrival
78(3)
The Blackfeet Prophet
81(2)
Continuing Communications
83(24)
The Yuwipi Ceremony
84(4)
The Yuwipi Spirits
85(1)
Red Bird's Yuwipi
86(2)
The Spirit Lodge Ritual
88(19)
Jesuit Report
90(1)
Andrew J. Blackbird's Account
91(1)
Henry R. Schoolcraft's Report
92(1)
Paul Kane's Experience
93(2)
Saulteaux Conjuring
95(1)
Catherine Wabose's Experience
96(1)
James W. Schultz's Report
97(1)
Sir Cecil Denny's Experience
98(1)
The Montagnais Practices
99(1)
J. G. Kohl's Story
100(1)
A. Irving Hallowell's Confessions
101(1)
Muskogee Practices
102(1)
Cheyenne Spirit Lodge Ritual
103(1)
The Spirit Lodge Cure
104(1)
A Kiowa Spirit Lodge
105(2)
Interspecies Relations
107(18)
Interspecies Communication---Birds
107(4)
Luther Standing Bear
109(2)
Interspecies Communications---Animals
111(5)
Black Elk's Experience
111(2)
White Bull's Experience
113(1)
William Rowland's Story
114(1)
Jim Bridger's Experience
114(2)
The Coyote Helps the War Party
116(1)
Animal Powers
116(5)
Luther Standing Bear's Experience
116(2)
Yellow Fish's Tragedy
118(1)
Buffalo of the Sun
119(2)
Animals Admonishing Humans
121(4)
Many Tail Feathers's Father's Dream
121(1)
The Bears Warn the Hunter
122(1)
Rising Wolf's Protective Warbonnet
123(2)
The Land and the Cosmos
125(24)
Sons-in-Jah and Desert Potatoes
126(1)
Making Plants Grow
126(9)
The Pawnee Corn Growers
127(1)
Growing the Cedar Berry
128(1)
The Pawnee Blind Man
128(1)
Plenty Fingers Feeds His Children
129(1)
Navajo Corn Growers
130(1)
Navajo Seed Giving
131(1)
Pueblo Seed Grass Ceremony
132(1)
Zuni Corn Growers
133(2)
Changes in the Weather
135(2)
Bringing Rain
137(1)
Chiricahua Apache Ceremony
137(2)
The Unfortunate Mexican
137(2)
Changing the Nature of a Storm
139(5)
The Texas Alabama Tradition
139(1)
Wooden Leg's Story
140(1)
Last Horse's Miracle
141(1)
The Blackfeet Medicine Men Contest
142(1)
Fulfilling Big Bear's Request
143(1)
Enlisting the Weather as an Aid
144(2)
The Sin'-o-pah Weather Control
144(1)
Chiricahua Storm Medicine
145(1)
Ruffled Feathers Calms the Waters
146(1)
Rain as an Affirmation of a Blessing
146(3)
The Old Hunkpapa Sioux Chief
147(2)
Sacred Stones and Places
149(18)
Sacred Stones
149(1)
The Picture Rocks
150(3)
Black Elk
150(1)
Incident at Cannon Ball
151(1)
Old Mandan's Picture Rock
152(1)
Sweat Lodge Stones
153(1)
Medicine Stones
154(2)
Horn Chips's Stones
155(1)
Buffalo Stones That Call the Blackfeet
156(2)
Medicine Crow's Mother's Stones
156(2)
Healings with Stones---Frances Densmore's Summary
158(1)
Calling the Buffalo
159(2)
Listening to the Ground's Fossil Stone
159(1)
Goose Calls a Buffalo
160(1)
Crooked Foot Finds the Buffalo
161(1)
Powerful Places
161(6)
The Comanches Discovered a Sacred Site
162(1)
The Pipestone Quarry
163(1)
The Island Sacred Rock
164(1)
The Standing Rock Sun Dance Site
165(2)
Unusual Exploits of Medicine Men
167(26)
Early Colonial Observations
167(2)
Feat of Ice or White Bull at Busby in 1867
169(1)
Ice's Account
169(2)
The Aoutaenhrobi Fire Ritual
171(2)
Holding the Jar with Feathers
173(1)
Calling up of the Waters
174(1)
Invulnerability to Arrows and Bullets
175(4)
Bear Claws's Power
175(1)
Brave Buffalo's Feat
176(1)
Old Man S
177(1)
Box Elder's Exploit
178(1)
The Powers of Crazy Mule
178(1)
Powers of Animation
179(6)
The Choctaw Medicine Man
180(1)
Feat of Elk Left Behind
180(1)
The Arickara Bear Medicine Society Buffalo Hunt
181(3)
Eagle Feathers Dancing
184(1)
The Power of Invisibility
185(4)
The Shawnee's Power
186(1)
The Apache Invisibility Tactic
186(1)
Hiding from the Flying Man
187(1)
The Invisible Woman
188(1)
Lame Medicine Man Causes Blindness
188(1)
Producing Anomalous Things
189(4)
Buffalo Lump's Bullets
190(1)
A Unified Smoke
190(3)
The Spiritual Universe
193(22)
Substance
195(6)
Space
201(5)
Navajos Moving the Sun
203(1)
A Navajo Thunderstorm
204(2)
Time
206(9)
Geronimo's Power
206(1)
The Length of a Lifetime
207(1)
Brave Buffalo's Expectations
207(1)
Black Elk's Expectation
207(1)
Plenty Coups, Chief of the Crows
208(1)
A Chiricahua Apache Prediction
209(1)
Two Leggings
209(1)
The Buffalo and Hillside
209(1)
The Nighthawk Ceremony Prediction
210(1)
The Circumstances of Death
211(1)
Siya'ka's Death
212(3)
Endnotes 215(12)
Bibliography 227

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