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Flight of the seventh moon : the teaching of the shields / Lynn V. Andrews ; illustrations by N. Scott Momaday.

Title
Flight of the seventh moon : the teaching of the shields / Lynn V. Andrews ; illustrations by N. Scott Momaday.
Author
Andrews, Lynn V.
Publication
San Francisco : Harper & Row, c1984.

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Description
xii, 203 p. : ill.; 22 cm.
Summary
This book about a woman's apprenticeship to a Cree shaman is remarkable not only for the glimpse it provides of an unfamiliar culture, but also for the author's quietly powerful style and the humility with which she opens herself to new and often seemingly alien experieces.
Alternative Title
Flight of the 7th moon.
Subject
  • Whistling Elk, Agnes
  • Andrews, Lynn V
  • Physicians, Women
  • Indians, North American
  • Cree mythology
  • Cree Indians > Religion
  • Indian mythology > Great Plains
  • Indians of North America > Great Plains > Religion
  • Shamans > Biography
  • Manitoba
Genre/Form
  • Biography
  • Biographies
  • Biography.
Note
  • Sequel to: Medicine woman.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
ISBN
0062500279
LCCN
^^^83018356^
OCLC
  • 9893967
  • SCSB-13407331
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library