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Author | : Robert A. Trennert |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 312 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
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In 1863 the Dine began receiving medical care from the federal government during their confinement at Bosque Redondo. Over the next ninety years, a familiar litany of problems surfaced in periodic reports on Navajo health care: inadequate funding, understaffing, and the unrelenting spread of such communicable diseases as tuberculosis. In 1955 Congress transferred medical care from the Indian Bureau to the Public Health Service. The Dine accepted some aspects of Western medicine, but during the nineteenth century most government physicians actively worked to destroy age-old healing practices. Only in the 1930s did doctors begin to work with--rather than oppose--traditional healers. Medicine men associated illness with the supernatural and the disruption of nature's harmony. Indian service doctors familiar with Navajo culture eventually accepted traditional medicine as a valuable complement to their health care. Superior scholarship . . . especially rich in new material.--David Brugge, author of The Navajo-Hopi Land Dispute.
Author | : Charles Langley |
Publisher | : Nicholas Brealey |
Total Pages | : 292 |
Release | : 2008-04-10 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1857884078 |
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In this fascinating real-life adventure, a chance meeting with a young Navajo Indian propels an English traveler out of his middle-class London life and into the world of North American Indian Medicine Men. Here, people firmly believe that witchcraft can bring ruin, even death, and only Medicine Men have the knowledge to do battle with evil, lift curses and restore the sick to health. Blue Horse is one of a dwindling band of Medicine Men traveling the vast Navajo nation of New Mexico and Arizona. Charles Langley, a former London newspaper executive, becomes his "bag carrier" and chauffeur and eventually his trainee. He sees the Medicine Man perform feats: foretelling the future, uncovering the hidden past and communicating with spirits. Vowing not to leave his brains at the teepee door, Langley studies the accumulating evidence that Medicine Men really can cure the sick, change events of long ago and influence the future. Across the breathtaking Southwest landscape and along the fabled Route 66, he meets startling characters and gains rare access into ancient healing traditions.
Author | : Gladys Amanda Reichard |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 83 |
Release | : 1939 |
Genre | : Crafts & Hobbies |
ISBN | : 9780486233291 |
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Reproduces the Navajo Bead Chant and Shooting Chant sandpaintings done by a revered medicine man in addition to explaining these healing rites and the legends connected with them
Author | : Gladys Amanda Reichard |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 214 |
Release | : 1939 |
Genre | : Indians of North America |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : William Thomas Corlett |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 404 |
Release | : 2011-06-01 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781258050047 |
Download The Medicine Man of the American Indian and His Cultural Background Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Charlotte Johnson Frisbie |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 640 |
Release | : 1987 |
Genre | : Freedom of religion |
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Download Navajo Medicine Bundles Or Jish Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Frisbie examines how jish are assembled, used, and protected, and how they are circulated among Navajos and others such as esoteric art dealers, gallery owners, an museums ... -- from inside cover.
Author | : Frank Mitchell |
Publisher | : UNM Press |
Total Pages | : 476 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780826331816 |
Download Navajo Blessingway Singer Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This life history of a Navajo leader, recorded in the 1960s and first published in 1977, is a classic work in the study of Navajo history and religious traditions. "A skillful, meticulous, and altogether praiseworthy contribution to Navajo studies. . . . Although the focus of Mitchell's autobiography is upon his role as a Blessingway singer, there is much material here on Navajo history and culture in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Mitchell attended the government school at Fort Defiance, worked on the railroad in Arizona, served as a handyman and interpreter at several trading posts and the Franciscan missions, and later served as a tribal councilman in the 1930s and as a judge in the 1940s and 1950s. His observations on these experiences are relevant to our understanding of contemporary Navajo life."--Lawrence C. Kelly, Western Historical Quarterly "This book stands easily among the best of the 'native' autobiographies. Narrated by a thoughtful and articulate Navajo leader over a span of eighteen years, this life history is brought into English with none of the selective romanticizing that has spoiled some books. . . . (It is) a superb job of bringing one culture ever closer to another."--Barre Tolken, Western Folklore
Author | : Charles Langley |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781473646179 |
Download Meeting the Medicine Men Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
In this fascinating real-life adventure, a chance meeting with a young Navajo Indian propels an English traveler out of his middle-class London life and into the world of North American Indian Medicine Men. Here, people firmly believe that witchcraft can bring ruin, even death, and only Medicine Men have the knowledge to do battle with evil, lift curses and restore the sick to health. Blue Horse is one of a dwindling band of Medicine Men traveling the vast Navajo nation of New Mexico and Arizona. Charles Langley, a former London newspaper executive, becomes his 'bag carrier' and chauffeur and eventually his trainee. He sees the Medicine Man perform feats: foretelling the future, uncovering the hidden past and communicating with spirits. Vowing not to leave his brains at the teepee door, Langley studies the accumulating evidence that Medicine Men really can cure the sick, change events of long ago and influence the future. Across the breathtaking Southwest landscape and along the fabled Route 66, he meets startling characters and gains rare access into ancient healing traditions.
Author | : Gladys Amanda Reichard |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 83 |
Release | : 1939 |
Genre | : Navajo Indians |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : John Holiday |
Publisher | : University of Oklahoma Press |
Total Pages | : 428 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780806136684 |
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"In the second part of the book, Holiday details the family and tribal teachings he has acquired over a long life. He tells his grandparents' stories of the Long Walk era, discusses local attitudes about the land, relates Navajo religious stories, and recounts his training as a medicine man. All of Holiday's experiences and teachings reflect the thoughts of a traditional practitioner who has found in life both beauty and lessons for future generations."--BOOK JACKET.