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Between Earth & Sky: Legends of Native American Sacred Places
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ASIN: 0152020624 |
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The silent stories of our ancient land and its native peoples are given voice in reverential prose poems and radiant paintings.
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Knowing other cultures is important for all children. .......2007-04-04
This is my third copy. . Its a wonderful overview of many Native American cultural traditions. The map in the back is also outstanding. I keep giving it away. I really think it is special
Beautiful book.......2007-01-12
This book is beautiful and has inspired my class to write & draw.
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From the author of Native American Testimony comes a revelatory new look at the hallowed, diverse, and threatened landscapes of the American Indian
For thousands of years Native Americans have told stories about the powers of revered landscapes and sought spiritual direction at mysterious locations in their homelands. In Where the Lightning Strikes, Peter Nabokov offers sixteen “biographies of place” that dramatize the rich diversity of Indian cultures and their religious systems across North America. From the mountains of Maine to Tennessee's Tellico Valley, from the Black Hills of South Dakota to Rainbow Canyon in Arizona to the high country of northwestern California, each chapter explores a host of relationships between Indian cultures and their environments and describes the myths, legends, practices, and rituals that sustained them.
Based on years of research and personal experience, Where the Lightning Strikes reveals a range of holy lands containing beneficial as well as malevolent forces and reminds us of the stubborn persistence of Indian beliefs in the sacredness of the American earth.
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Court battles for Native sacred places.......2006-04-22
Peter Nabokov's WHERE THE LIGHTNING STRIKES: THE LIVES OF AMERICAN INDIAN SACRED PLACES surveys Native American culture and the myths and legends which have kept their close connections with the environment. Chapters are arranged by the four cardinal directions and use four major court cases in which Indians fought against destruction of key sacred places to bring together both past belief and modern controversies surrounding these places. There's a tendency to view Indians as 'ecological saints': WHERE THE LIGHTNING STRIKES takes a different approach, analyzing Indian environmental habits, spirituality and social issues as entwined facets of the whole.
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This comprehensive travel guide examines North America's most sacred sites for spiritually attuned explorers. Important archaeological, geological, and historical destinations from coast to coast are exhaustively examined, from the weathered pueblos of the American Southwest and the medicine wheels of western Canada to Graceland and the birthplace of Martin Luther King, Jr. Histories and cultural contexts are objectively surveyed, along with the latest academic theories and insightful metaphysical ruminations. Detailed maps, drawings, and travel directions are also included.
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Great travel guide to important and significant places.......2004-05-03
Divided into 10 geographical sections (Southwest, West Coast, Alaska and Hawai'i, Western Canada, Rocky Mountains, Central Plains, Great Lakes Region, Eastern Canada, New England, and The South), "Sacred Places North America" is the ultimate travel guide for anyone seeking out places of great historical or religious significance. The guide is thorough, covering things as diverse as Anasazi dwellings, Area 51, medicine wheels, Indian mounds, petroglyphs, Walden Pond, and even Graceland. Each entry has a basic history of the place plus a description of how to get there. A true travel guide for those interested in these places it is a real treasure trove of information. If you are planning to travel this summer, pick up a copy and make sure to visit some of the most interesting places in North America. "Sacred Places North America" is a highly recommended purchase.
more bang for your tourist buck!.......2003-10-07
Instead of just blandly heading off into picture postcard America, consider traveling with a purpose -- to experience the intense energy boosts of sacred sites, modern & ancient.
To that end Rebeccasreads recommends you take along Brad Olsen's SACRED PLACES NORTH AMERICA. While the writing is utilitarian, the maps busy & the b&w photos a bit shabby, the information offered will certainly get more bang out of your buck in the sites you visit -- such as Graceland, Crater Lake & 106 other more & less known places in the length & breath of this continent.
Great book and Great people!.......2003-04-30
This book is great. It is not only a source of information, but it is also a great place for inspiration. I have been using it in my travels. The places I have visited in the book have been amazing. Also, the people are great. I encourage you to look at the publishing website. They stand for great things and are very easy to work with.
A revealing, useful, and enthusiastically recommended guide.......2003-02-13
Compiled and written by Brad Olsen (Editor, World Explorer), Sacred Places: North America offers the reader 108 spiritual destinations throughout North America, ranging from the Salt Lake Temple of Utah, to the Ellis Medicine Wheel of Alberta in Canada, to the Garden of the Gods in Hawaii, to the birthplace of Martin Luther King. Black-and-white photographs, succinct descriptions, advice for traveling, combine to make Sacred Places: North America a revealing, useful, and enthusiastically recommended guide for the vacationer seeking to fulfill their spiritual as well as their recreational yearnings.
An unusual and useful guidebook!.......2003-01-10
Brad Olsen has come up with yet another special book. Sacred places covers a large number of sites and other attractions you won't read about elsewhere. Some (such as Elvis Presley's Graceland) are unexpected; others are natural areas such as Joshua Tree and Denali; still others are Native American religious landmarks such as Chaco Canyon. Even if you aren't the least bit "New Age" or "spiritual;" but just someone who appreciates nature and unusual places, you'll find Brad's book to be a great compendium. And directions are included!
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Beautiful photography!.......2007-06-12
This is a really nice book, gorgeous photo work, but I was a bit disappointed that there wasn't more on Medicine Wheels in it. Nevertheless, it's a keeper.
Outstanding Pictures; thoughtful; insightful; get it!.......1999-10-14
Saw this at a friend's house and had to purchase it. Incredible listing of magical places and spaces to visit from afar or plan to visit in person.
This should be a must for everyone's coffee table; the power of the places emanate from every page and suggests visions and answers that elders have found and preserved for us to investigate now.
Beautiful and fascinating book........1999-05-18
This is a very beautiful and fascinating book. It has wonderful photographs of sacred sites in Canada and the United States, along with Native American legends about the sites. I highly recommend this book.
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A collection of Native American speeches and excerpts, from the 17th century to the present day.
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Good Quotations for students of Native Americans.......2005-02-02
This is a great book to use in the classroom for Native American units. The photographs are by the famous Edward S. Curtis. The quotes are from famous Native Americans trying to clarify their religious/ cultural beliefs to the US government and public. It makes for an extraordinary, moving experience for students and teachers. A great book to share.
In a Sacred Manner I Live.......2000-03-26
This thoughtful work contains speeches by Native Americans on topics such as wisdom, our relationship to the earth, and other sacred subjects. Beautiful photographs of Native Americans are included. A peaceful read.
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Sacred Places: How the Living Earth Seeks Our Friendship
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Supporting Lovelock's thesis that the Earth is a living being, Swan suggests natural sites such as Serpent Mound, Machu Pichu, and Kilauea Center have the power to move us in ways modern science cannot explain.
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All of Earth’s life is interconnected and sacred. An awareness of that sacred relationship opens a direct path to spiritual understanding. These powerful techniques join mind, will, spirit, and intuition to the plants, animals, and minerals sharing our world, aligning the practitioner in a deeper relationship with life’s sacred matrix.
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Native stories.......2007-03-29
Very nice book for all ages, you learn from it and you look at the world around you differently, with love, respect and compassion. Very good book, I sure enjoyed reading it.
An outstanding practical guide to personal evolution........2006-10-28
I disagree with the other reviewer, this book should not be fully five stars, but at minimum six, or more, out of five.
Like many people, over time I've purchased many books on human evolution, and most of them sit on the bookshelf read although there's nothing in them that I can really use or I end up selling them because they're either highly derivative of others work or I've outgrown the limited perspective the author writes of. The Spirit of Place is really in the top handfull of books I own. If (god forbid)I had to let of all of my books, except three, this would be one of the ones I'd fight to keep. It's simply that good. One of the others would probably be the author's other work, Compass of the Heart.
The Spirit of Place is set up as a practical workbook, divided into the seasons of the year, further divided into a 'lesson' each week, that you read a short dialogue about (usually 2-3 pages) and are presented with task or series of practices to do in the following week. These are the real gems. If you're looking for theory, you won't find it here. It's extremely practical and allows you to experience each of the elements, seasons and practices and to honour your own experience and learning, and not simply to learn the author's point of view. I believe that the exercises are valuable and useful even if your primary practice is not shamanic based.
With this book and the other's other book, Compass of the Heart, the author's integrity, authenticity, wisdom and spirit can be felt in the words and that's something that simply can not be faked and is missing from so many other books on human evolution.
I would not hestitate to re-purchase both volumes this author has written even at prices substantially higher than the list prices here. Highly recommended.
The Spirit os Place.......2006-03-12
Another Beautiful book well put together.
I am reading it by weekly chapters and studying it. It will take a year to read the book this way and I have only had it eight weeks. So far I am enthralled by it.
I fully expect to feel it's rating should be five stars, we will see. JMM
Love this book and use it year after year.......2001-11-29
This book helps everyone find her or his native place and live sacredly in it. It follows the cycle of the year and so revives itself in my life with each set of changing seasons. Good information and helpful attitudes for living on the planet consciously.
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The Way to Make Perfect Mountains: Native American Legends of Sacred Mountains
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Uniquely organized, yet lacks solution-providing.......1997-11-07
In Navajo Sacred Places, Kelly and Harris seek to elucidate the sacredness of Navajo landscapes. The monograph consists of four main parts which are subdivided into thirteen chapters. The authors introduce their own research in Part One. In Part Two, they compare their work to other researches on the same issue conducted by other scholars. In Parts Three and Four, Kelley and Harris make comparisons between their work and those of others in terms of methodology and interpretations of the analyses. With such efforts, the two authors try to establish an argument for the preservation of Navajo culture that is tied to the sacred places on the Navajo Reservation. What the Navajos are concerned with most is the preservation of the sacred sites against land and economic developments, which is ironically, needed for the enrichment of the modern Navajo society. In the course of land development, some sacred places are endangered in exchange for the economic development. Developers often consult with the Navajo elders, who are knowledgeable of such sacred sites, in order to identify which sites are more important and which sites can be sacrificed." Consequently, this results in prioritizing of sacred places. In light of this, Kelley and Harris warn that the prioritization of these sacred places for the sake of economic developments becomes what they call as "piecemeal approach," and is a menace to the preservation of Navajo culture. In contrast, they declare that each sacred space must be viewed as a part of the larger sacred geography in terms of the cultural preservation against the economic development. Such approach is glossed as "landscape approach," and comprises the core of their assertion in this monograph. As far as the authors are concerned, the preservation of the sacred places is crucial to the Navajos, and is always confronted by the curse of the colonization. By offering their "landscape approach," they hope to provide a solution. However, colonization has brought several other changes to the Navajo culture, such as the decrease in the number of the medicine man who are the keepers of the traditional religious repertoires. This religious change connotes the decrease in the importance of the sacred places and knowledge associated with them. Thus, the question becomes: How can the "landscape approach" be effective in such a circumstance? Though the authors display their awareness of the problematic nature of colonization and the efforts made by the Navajos to cope with the situations, their theory is ironically trapped into the curse of colonialism. The theory of the authors is only an idealism which lacks pragmatic solution to "real-time-oriented" contemporary society which places economical prosperity on a higher priority over cultural nourishment.
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Sacred Objects, Sacred Places combines native oral histories, photographs, drawings, and case studies to present current issues of cultural preservation vital to American Indians, Alaska Natives, and Native Hawaiians. Complete with commentaries by native peoples, non-native curators, and archaeologists, this book discusses the repatriation of human remains, the curation and exhibition of sacred masks and medicine bundles, and key cultural compromises for preservation successes in protecting sacred places on private, state, and federal lands.
The author traveled thousands of miles over a ten-year period to meet and interview tribal elders, visit sacred places, and discuss the power of sacred objects in order to present the essential debates surrounding tribal historic preservation. Without revealing the exact locations of sacred places (unless tribes have gone public with their cultural concerns), Gulliford discusses the cultural significance of tribal sacred sites and the ways in which they are being preserved. Some of the case studies included are the Wyoming Medicine Wheel, Devil's Tower National Monument, Mount Shasta in California, Mount Graham in Arizona, and the Sweet Grass Hills in Montana. Federal laws are reviewed in the context of tribal preservation programs, and tribal elders discuss specific cases of repatriation.
Though the book describes numerous tribal tragedies and offers examples of cultural theft, Sacred Objects and Sacred Places affirms living traditions. It reveals how the resolution of these controversies in favor of native people will ensure their cultural continuity in a changing and increasingly complex world. The issues of returning human remains, curating sacred objects, and preserving tribal traditions are addressed to provide the reader with a full picture of Native Americans' struggles to keep their heritage alive.
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Sacred Objects and Sacred Places: Preserving Tribal Traditi.......2001-08-03
This book is divided into five (5) equally important chapters. Chapter One deals with the Collecting, studying, and retaining human remains. Museums and the curation of sacred objects is the subject of Chapter Two. One of the hardest and most difficult subjects for the museum professional is the care of landscapes and sacred sites, the topic of Chapter Three. Chapter Four addresses the subject of tribal preservation offices while Chapter Five is about living tribal cultures. A widespread belief that the Indian was disappearing was widely help during the middle to late 1800s. To preserve the Indians, the white culture sought to display the bones, pottery, weapons, and othe ritems used in everyday life. The white man probably did this as a way of atoning for past injustices against the Indian. As time would bear out the Indian was anything but disappearing. With federal legislation such as the Antiquities Act passed in 1960 and most recently the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act of 1990, there has been a concerted effort to recognize the right of the Native American to claim the human remains of their ancestors.
Chapter One deals with the problems some of tribes have with the mountain of paperwork required by some museums for repatriation and that most tribes have inadequate staffs to properly receive and process the items.
Chapter Two deals with how Native American tribes have requested and received many of the sacred objects that have been displayed. Medicine bundles, for example, have been carefully cleaned then x-rayed or CT-scanned to determine its contents. For sacred and trust reasons the bundles were not opened. The CT-scan was used only to determine the contents and therefore a determination on the proper curation methods could be utilized.
Chapter Three deals with the sometimes overwhelming task of preserving sacred landscapes and the much more difficult individual sacred sites. Not only sites used by tribes and clans, such as Devils Tower, WY, Wallowa Lake, OR and King's Highway, HI, but also vision quest and other individual-use sites may need to be deemed as religious sites.
Chapter Four ends with over fifty pages describing places sacred to Native Americans such as Bighorn Medicine Wheel in Wyoming and Mount Shasta in California.
Chapter Five deals with the effort of tribes to survive intact. This chapter also deals with the invasion of religious ceremonies by curious site-seers and how tribes have had to close these ceremonies.
"Sacred Objects and Sacred Places: Preserving Tribal Traditions" would be a valuable addition to the library of any individual interested in Native American studies.
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