Voices of Our Ancestors

Voices of Our Ancestors

Author: Dhyani Ywahoo

Publisher: Shambhala Publications

Published: 1987-11-12

Total Pages: 320

ISBN-13:

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Gathers advice on obtaining happiness, finding fulfillment, clarifying the emotions, and promoting family harmony.


Learning Cherokee Ways - the Ywahoo Path

Learning Cherokee Ways - the Ywahoo Path

Author: Dhyani Ywahoo

Publisher:

Published: 2012-05-29

Total Pages: 178

ISBN-13: 9781467972840

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Learning Cherokee Ways: The Ywahoo Path is an exquisite gathering of ancient and sacred wisdoms from the Ywahoo tradition. Written by the Venerable Dhyani Ywahoo, holder of the Ywahoo lineage and Chief of the Green Mountain Ani Yun Wi Wa, Learning Cherokee Ways: The Ywahoo Path is a sacred passing of teachings that until now have been kept hidden. A moving journey through time, the text explores the Ywahoo experience of worlds, both seen and unseen, and the universes that surround us. Through stories, personal reminiscences, and conversations handed down through the generations, Learning Cherokee Ways: The Ywahoo Path resonates in our past, present, and future. A remarkable worldview as well as a hands-on primer, Learning Cherokee Ways: The Ywahoo Path includes practices, meditations, and enhancement exercises that guide the reader and serves as a universal blessing for all beings.


Medicine Women, Curanderas, and Women Doctors

Medicine Women, Curanderas, and Women Doctors

Author: Bobette Perrone

Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press

Published: 2012-11-15

Total Pages: 275

ISBN-13: 0806175206

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The stories of ten women healers form the core of this provocative journey into cultural healing methods utilized by women. In a truly grass-roots project, the authors take the reader along to listen to the voices of Native American medicine women, Southwest Hispanic curanderas, and women physicians as they describe their healing paths. This book will fascinate anyone interested in the relationship between illness and healing-medical practitioners and historians, patients, anthropologists, feminists, psychologists, psychiatrists, theologians, sociologists, folklorists, and others who seek understanding about our relationship to the forces of both illness and healing.


The Cherokee Nation of Indians

The Cherokee Nation of Indians

Author: Charles C. Royce

Publisher: DigiCat

Published: 2023-12-14

Total Pages: 296

ISBN-13:

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The following monograph on the history of the Cherokees, with its accompanying maps, is given as an illustration of the character of the work in its treatment of each of the Indian tribes. In the preparation of this book, more particularly in the tracing out of the various boundary lines, much careful attention and research have been given to all available authorities or sources of information. The old manuscript records of the Government, the shelves of the Congressional Library, including its very large collection of American maps, local records, and the knowledge of "old settlers," as well as the accretions of various State historical societies, have been made to pay tribute to the subject.


Legend of the Rainbow Warriors

Legend of the Rainbow Warriors

Author: Steven McFadden

Publisher: iUniverse

Published: 2005-07-13

Total Pages: 189

ISBN-13: 1469785854

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Legend of the Rainbow Warriors is a journalist's account of one of the core myths of America, and an electrifying exploration of how that myth is playing out in real time. One dominant myth is formed by advertising images of vast, luxurious wealth-the myth of materialism. Another myth is conjured in the bloody, sorrowful images that pervade movies, music and computer games-the myth that the world is hate-filled and chaotic beyond redemption. The Legend of the Rainbow Warriors offers a spiritual alternative of hope and real possibility based upon respect, freedom and responsibility. As drawn from dozens of historical accounts, the Legend of the Rainbow Warriors relates that "when the Earth becomes desperately sick, people of all colors and faiths will unite, and rise to face the overwhelming challenges with insight, honesty, caring, sharing, and respect." Veteran writer Steven McFadden weaves the myths and the headlines together seamlessly in a rich work of literary journalism that is adroitly crafted, eye-opening, and soul-inspiring.


Earth Acupuncture

Earth Acupuncture

Author: Gail Reichstein Rex

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2016-02-18

Total Pages: 254

ISBN-13: 1591437814

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Applying the principles of Chinese medicine and Native American shamanism to answer the call of the Earth and heal its polluted landscapes • Explains how to build a healing relationship with the natural world by making offerings of thanks and listening to the Earth’s responses • Details methods of diagnosis and several types of Earth acupuncture treatment, including building stone circles, planting crystals, and working with wooden and copper-rod needles • Shares the author’s journey of healing a river with these methods After experiencing a powerful vision of the nuclear power plant near her home and its toxic effects on the Hudson River, acupuncturist Gail Rex was inspired to help heal the river and surrounding lands but was unsure how to begin. Soon after, at a workshop with Cherokee-wisdom teacher Venerable Dhyani Ywahoo, she discovered the answer: she could treat the landscape just as she treated her patients--by taking its pulses and treating the points of stagnant energy and pollution with acupuncture. Tracing her journey from initial vision and pulse taking to building a stone circle to open a major energy meridian of the Hudson, the author reveals how our rivers, valleys, and forests are capable of illness and healing just like a living being. She explains simple practices for attuning with the living landscape and responding appropriately to the messages and images received from the Earth’s intelligence. By making offerings of thanks and asking the land’s permission before every interaction, Gail Rex demonstrates the power of right relationship in action. Drawing upon the principles of Chinese medicine and her work with Native American shamanic traditions, Rex shows how the landscape itself reveals both its imbalances and the opportunities for treatment. Using a broad range of diagnostic tools--including direct observation, principles of feng shui, listening to pulses, and working with maps--she demonstrates ways of identifying the master points of the surrounding landscape. She then explores different methods of Earth acupuncture treatment, including building stone circles, planting crystals, and working with wooden and copper-rod needles to treat these specific points and restore energy balance. Offering not only a proactive method for healing the environment, Rex also reveals how to communicate with the rivers, mountains, trees, and rocks that surround us, allowing each of us to develop an authentic spiritual relationship with the living body of the Earth.


Native American Trail Marker Trees

Native American Trail Marker Trees

Author: Dennis Downes

Publisher: Chicago's Books Press

Published: 2011-09

Total Pages: 260

ISBN-13: 9780979789281

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America's first "road signs" were trees bent as saplings by the Indians, marking trails. They were part of an extensive land and water navigation system that was in place long before the arrival of the first European settlers.


Lady Long Rider

Lady Long Rider

Author: Bernice Ende

Publisher: Farcountry Press

Published: 2018-06-27

Total Pages: 270

ISBN-13: 1560377453

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Riding 2,000 miles on horseback from Montana to New Mexico sounds like a crazy but thrilling dream or pure hardship and exhaustion. According to Bernice Ende, the trip was all that and more. Since swinging her leg over the saddle for that first long ride in 2005 (at the age of 50), Ende has logged more than 29,000 miles in the saddle, crisscrossing North America on horseback - alone. More than once she has traversed the Great Plains, the Southwest deserts, the Cascade Range, and the Rocky Mountains. Along the way, she discovered a sense of community and love of place that unites people wherever they live. From 2014-2016, she was the first person to ride coast to coast and back again in one trek, winning acclaim from the international Long Riders' Guild and awe from the people she met along the way. Bernice Ende's memoirs are illuminated by accompanying maps of her routes and photos from her journeys, capturing the instant friends she meets along the way, and her ongoing encounters with harsh weather, wildlife, hard work, mosquitoes, tricky route-finding, and the occasional worn out horseshoe. Ende reveals her inner struggles and triumphs - testing the limits of physical and mental stamina, coping with inescapable solitude, and the rewards of living life her own way, as she says, "in her own skin." Saddle up and come along for the journey of a lifetime.


Kaandossiwin

Kaandossiwin

Author: Kathleen E. Absolon

Publisher: Fernwood Publishing

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781552664407

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Indigenous methodologies have been silenced and obscured by the Western scientific means of knowledge production. In a challenge to this colonialist rejection of Indigenous knowledge, Anishinaabe researcher Kathleen Absolon examines the academic work of fourteen Indigenous scholars who utilize Indigenous worldviews in their search for knowing. Through an examination not only of their work but also of their experience in producing that work, Kaandossiwin describes how Indigenous researchers re-theorize and re-create methodologies. Understanding Indigenous methodologies as guided by Indigenous paradigms, worldviews, principles, processes and contexts, Absolon argues that they are wholistic, relational, inter-relational and interdependent with Indigenous philosophies, beliefs and ways of life. In exploring the ways Indigenous researchers use Indigenous methodologies within mainstream academia, Kaandossiwin renders these methods visible and helps to guard other ways of knowing from colonial repression. Due to a printing error, the last page of Kaandossiwin was not included in the book. Please download a pdf version of this page. We sincerely apologize for any inconvenience.


What Poets Used to Know

What Poets Used to Know

Author: Charles Upton

Publisher: Angelico Press

Published: 2016-09-07

Total Pages: 210

ISBN-13: 9781597311717

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From the days of the first shamans, through Homer, Dante, the traditional ballads, Rumi, Blake, Emily Dickinson, and Lew Welch, poetry has been rooted in metaphysics. In What Poets Used To Know, Charles Upton presents poetry both as a set of contemplative techniques and as a key to the accumulated lore hoard of the human race.