Using archival and ethnographic research, Michael D. McNally follows the making of Ojibwe eldership, showing that deference to older women and men is part of a fuller moral, aesthetic, and cosmological vision connected to the ongoing circle of life and tradition of authority tha…
Presents a collection of fourteen essays by both Native and non-Native scholars that address Native American spirituality in the twenty-first century, and discusses both traditional religion and Native Christianity, pedagogical practices, and more.
Ojibway life, legends and beliefs.
This text offers a thematic approach to Native American religious traditions. The author demonstrates how themes within native traditions connect with each other while upholding the integrity of individual traditions.
Publisher description: Teaching Spirits offers a thematic approach to Native American religious traditions. Within the great multiplicity of Native American cultures, Joseph Epes Brown has perceived certain common themes that resonate within many Native traditions. He demonstrat…