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The price of a gift : a Lakota healer's story / Gerald Mohatt & Joseph Eagle Elk.
- Title
- The price of a gift : a Lakota healer's story / Gerald Mohatt & Joseph Eagle Elk.
- Author
- Mohatt, Gerald Vincent
- Publication
- Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, c2000.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Request in advance | N.A.ETH. Ea 35 M | Off-site |
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- Additional Authors
- Eagle Elk, Joseph, 1931-1991
- Description
- xvi, 226 p., [4] p. of plates : ill., 1 map; 24 cm.
- Summary
- "Eagle Elk's story of his life, practice, and beliefs provides a look at the career of a traditional Native American healer. We learn how a persistent vision and recurring visits by thunder spirits led Eagle Elk long ago to become a healer. On a more general level, we gain valuable insights into how Lakota healers practice today. Eagle Elk's story and teachings also demonstrate the importance of community support and consensus in the development of traditional healers. Gerald Mohatt's perspective as a cross-cultural psychologist enables him to highlight the psychological dimensions and efficacy of Eagle Elk's healings and place them within a cross-cultural context."--Jacket.
- Subject
- Eagle Elk, Joseph, 1931-1991
- Medicine, Traditional
- Shamanism
- Indians, North American
- Dakota Indians > Biography
- Shamans > South Dakota > Rosebud Indian Reservation > Biography
- Dakota Indians > Social life and customs
- Shamanism
- Medicine, Traditional
- South Dakota
- Rosebud Indian Reservation (S.D.) > Social life and customs
- Genre/Form
- Biography
- Biographies
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [211]-213) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- pt. 1. Place and destiny -- 1. Joeiela -- 2. Destiny and life's purpose -- 3. A family's destiny -- pt. 2. Traveling and searching -- 4. Steps and missteps -- 5. All of my relatives -- 6. A life changed -- pt. 3. Vision and choice -- 7. Marriage, family, and vision -- 8. Origins and gifts before the pipe -- 9. The fish and the man -- pt. 4. Wisdom -- 10. Life and struggles of a medicine man -- 11. Further teachings -- 12. Sitting in the center : a search for words.
- ISBN
- 0803232047 (cloth : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- ^^^99047755^
- OCLC
- 42454238
- SCSB-10315256
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library