Religion and Hopi Life, Second Edition
Religion and Hopi Life, Second Edition

Author: John D. Loftin

Publisher: Indiana University Press

Published: 2003-05-08

Total Pages: 228

ISBN-13: 9780253215727

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Includes material on shamanism, death, witchcraft, myth, tricksters, and kachina initiations.

The Orion Zone
The Orion Zone

Author: Gary David

Publisher: SCB Distributors

Published: 2010-04-20

Total Pages: 561

ISBN-13: 1935487159

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Ancient star lore exploring the mysterious location of Pueblos in the American Southwest, circa 1100 AD, that appear to be a mirror image of the major stars of the Orion constellation. Many readers are familiar with the correlation between the pyramids of Egypt and the stars of Orion. Beginning in 1100 A.D. on the Arizona desert, the Hopi constructed a similar pattern of villages that mirrors all the major stars in the constellation. "As Above, so Below." The Orion Zone explores this ground-sky relationship and its astounding global significance. Packed with diagrams, maps, astronomical charts, and photos of ruins and rock art, this useful guidebook decodes the ancient mysteries of the Pueblo Indian world.

Selfless Love
Selfless Love

Author: Ellen Jikai Birx

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2014-04-01

Total Pages: 187

ISBN-13: 1614290946

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Selfless Love shows how meditation can help us realize that we don’t love—we are love. Gentle, elegant, and radically inspiring, Selfless Love presents a holistic, experiential meditative path that enables us to see beyond our preconceived notions of identity, spirituality, and humanity. Drawing equally from Zen parables, her experience as a mental health therapist, and the Gospels, Ellen Birx shows us that through meditation we can recognize that our true selves are not selves at all - that all beings are united in unbounded, infinite awareness and love, beyond words. Recognizing the limitations of language in describing the indescribable, Birx concludes each chapter in the Zen tradition of "turning words" with a verse meant to invite insights.

Ancient Burial Practices in the American Southwest
Ancient Burial Practices in the American Southwest

Author: Douglas R. Mitchell

Publisher: UNM Press

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 284

ISBN-13: 9780826334619

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Prehistoric burial practices provide an unparalleled opportunity for understanding and reconstructing ancient civilizations and for identifying the influences that helped shape them.

God's Government Begun
God's Government Begun

Author: Thomas D. Hamm

Publisher: Indiana University Press

Published: 1995-11-22

Total Pages: 356

ISBN-13: 9780253114716

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Growing out of the most radical fringes of the abolitionist movement, the Society for Universal Inquiry and Reform set out to inaugurate a new social order based on the principles of nonresistance. The Society founded eight utopian communities which, though short-lived, were the setting for the most radical questioning of antebellum American society. The members of the Society renounced all forms of coercive relationships. They attempted to live without government or private property and to model new visions of work, education, religion, economics, women's rights and roles, and community. This book tells the story of their impassioned attempt to transform the world and begin the "Government of God."

One Vast Winter Count
One Vast Winter Count

Author: Colin Gordon Calloway

Publisher: U of Nebraska Press

Published: 2020-06-18

Total Pages: 563

ISBN-13: 1496206355

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This magnificent, sweeping work traces the histories of the Native peoples of the American West from their arrival thousands of years ago to the early years of the nineteenth century. Emphasizing conflict and change, One Vast Winter Count offers a new look at the early history of the region by blending ethnohistory, colonial history, and frontier history. Drawing on a wide range of oral and archival sources from across the West, Colin G. Calloway offers an unparalleled glimpse at the lives of generations of Native peoples in a western land soon to be overrun.

American Indians, the Irish, and Government Schooling
American Indians, the Irish, and Government Schooling

Author: Michael C. Coleman

Publisher: U of Nebraska Press

Published: 2007-01-01

Total Pages: 398

ISBN-13: 0803206259

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For centuries American Indians and the Irish experienced assaults by powerful, expanding states, along with massive land loss and population collapse. In the early nineteenth century the U.S. government, acting through the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA), began a systematic campaign to assimilate Indians.