American Indian Magic

American Indian Magic
Author: Brad Steiger
Publisher:
Total Pages: 218
Release: 1986
Genre: Indian magic
ISBN:

This book is a practical guide which teaches, among other things, the American Indian's way to perfection, telling the reader how to... - Hold your own "Vision Quest." - Communicate with spirits and angels and get them to assist you in all that you desire. - Take total control of every situation and, through a formal agreement with the forces of nature, receive incredible benefits that can turn your life around for the better. - Prepare your own "Medicine Bag" containing common objects that, after a simple ritual, becomes sacred and highly charged to the bearer. - Send out "smoke signals" using your mind to contact and influence others many miles away.

American Indian Rhetorics of Survivance

American Indian Rhetorics of Survivance
Author: Ernest L. Stromberg
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Pre
Total Pages: 297
Release: 2006-07-30
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0822973014

American Indian Rhetorics of Survivance presents an original critical and theoretical analysis of American Indian rhetorical practices in both canonical and previously overlooked texts: autobiographies, memoirs, prophecies, and oral storytelling traditions. Ernest Stromberg assembles essays from a range of academic disciplines that investigate the rhetorical strategies of Native American orators, writers, activists, leaders, and intellectuals.The contributors consider rhetoric in broad terms, ranging from Aristotle's definition of rhetoric as "the faculty . . . of discovering in the particular case what are the available means of persuasion," to the ways in which Native Americans assimilated and revised Western rhetorical concepts and language to form their own discourse with European and American colonists. They relate the power and use of rhetoric in treaty negotiations, written accounts of historic conflicts and events, and ongoing relations between American Indian governments and the United States. This is a groundbreaking collection for readers interested in Native American issues and the study of language. In presenting an examination of past and present Native American rhetoric, it emphasizes the need for an improved understanding of multicultural perspectives.

Spirit Healing

Spirit Healing
Author: Mary Dean Atwood
Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company Incorporated
Total Pages: 158
Release: 1991
Genre: Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN: 9780806982663

Introduces the spirit-healing techniques of tribal shamans, and tells how to rid oneself of worries and contact a spirit guide

Witchcraft and Sorcery of the American Native Peoples

Witchcraft and Sorcery of the American Native Peoples
Author: Deward E. Walker
Publisher:
Total Pages: 368
Release: 1989
Genre: Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN:

A collection of studies (previously published) which is a revised and expanded edition of Walker's 1970 collection. Coverage has been extended to include the peoples of both Mesoamerica and the Arctic. When coupled with comparative studies drawn from other parts of the world, this volume contributes toward a cross-cultural theory of the forms and functions of supernatural techniques used to bring misfortune to others. No index. Printed on acidic paper. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Cherokee Indian Magic Symbols: Native American Composition - 7.44 X 9.69 - Wide Ruled - 120 Pages

Cherokee Indian Magic Symbols: Native American Composition - 7.44 X 9.69 - Wide Ruled - 120 Pages
Author: Grimbutterfly Books
Publisher: Independently Published
Total Pages: 122
Release: 2019-01-23
Genre: Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN: 9781794652897

The original artistic vision of Indian Native American magic symbols with a dream catcher and a Cherokee warrior. Great for lovers of Native American people, culture, and imagery, as well as those who have Cherokee blood in their veins.

Lost Indian Magic; A Mystery Story of the Red Man as He Lived Before the White Men Came

Lost Indian Magic; A Mystery Story of the Red Man as He Lived Before the White Men Came
Author: Grace Moon
Publisher: Palala Press
Total Pages: 338
Release: 2016-05-08
Genre:
ISBN: 9781356068111

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

An American Genocide

An American Genocide
Author: Benjamin Madley
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 709
Release: 2016-05-24
Genre: History
ISBN: 0300182171

Between 1846 and 1873, California’s Indian population plunged from perhaps 150,000 to 30,000. Benjamin Madley is the first historian to uncover the full extent of the slaughter, the involvement of state and federal officials, the taxpayer dollars that supported the violence, indigenous resistance, who did the killing, and why the killings ended. This deeply researched book is a comprehensive and chilling history of an American genocide. Madley describes pre-contact California and precursors to the genocide before explaining how the Gold Rush stirred vigilante violence against California Indians. He narrates the rise of a state-sanctioned killing machine and the broad societal, judicial, and political support for genocide. Many participated: vigilantes, volunteer state militiamen, U.S. Army soldiers, U.S. congressmen, California governors, and others. The state and federal governments spent at least $1,700,000 on campaigns against California Indians. Besides evaluating government officials’ culpability, Madley considers why the slaughter constituted genocide and how other possible genocides within and beyond the Americas might be investigated using the methods presented in this groundbreaking book.

Seeing Red—Hollywood's Pixeled Skins

Seeing Red—Hollywood's Pixeled Skins
Author: LeAnne Howe
Publisher: MSU Press
Total Pages: 491
Release: 2013-03-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1609173686

At once informative, comic, and plaintive, Seeing Red—Hollywood’s Pixeled Skins is an anthology of critical reviews that reexamines the ways in which American Indians have traditionally been portrayed in film. From George B. Seitz’s 1925 The Vanishing American to Rick Schroder’s 2004 Black Cloud, these 36 reviews by prominent scholars of American Indian Studies are accessible, personal, intimate, and oftentimes autobiographic. Seeing Red—Hollywood’s Pixeled Skins offers indispensible perspectives from American Indian cultures to foreground the dramatic, frequently ridiculous difference between the experiences of Native peoples and their depiction in film. By pointing out and poking fun at the dominant ideologies and perpetuation of stereotypes of Native Americans in Hollywood, the book gives readers the ability to recognize both good filmmaking and the dangers of misrepresenting aboriginal peoples. The anthology offers a method to historicize and contextualize cinematic representations spanning the blatantly racist, to the well-intentioned, to more recent independent productions. Seeing Red is a unique collaboration by scholars in American Indian Studies that draws on the stereotypical representations of the past to suggest ways of seeing American Indians and indigenous peoples more clearly in the twenty-first century.

The Magic Children

The Magic Children
Author: Roger Echo-Hawk
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 177
Release: 2016-05-23
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1315418002

This provocative book confronts the fallacy of race and American Indian racialism, and challenges us to move American culture, policy, and scholarship beyond race.