Research Catalog

Title

Sacred lands of Indian America / edited by Jake Page ; foreword by Charles E. Little ; photography by David Muench ; text by Charles E. Little, Jake Page, and Ruth Rudner ; essays by Paula Gunn Allen, Rennard Strickland, and James Park Morton.

Author

Little, Charles E.

Publication

New York : H.N. Abrams, 2001.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Page, Jake
• Rudner, Ruth.
• Muench, David

Description

144 p. : col. ill., col. maps; 29 cm.

Summary

A celebration in words and photographs of 25 places considered sacred by Native Americans, many of which are under threat of development and desecration. Prepared with the cooperation of five major American Indian organizations concerned with preservation, the book includes essays by important Indian and Christian writers in the realm of the sacred.

Subject

• Indians of North America > Religion
• Sacred space > United States
• Indians of North America > Land tenure

Note

• "A Liveoak Edition"--T.p. verso.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 141-142) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Foreword : From the land, gifts of the spirit / by Charles E. Little -- The conquest of Emerald Peak : San Carlos Apache -- The songs of Arlecho : Lummi -- Bear's lodge : Plains tribes -- The repatriation of Blue Lake and Sandia : Taos and Sandia -- An ill wind on Nch'I-Wána : Yakama, Cascade-Klikitat -- Another horn of the buffalo : Lakota, Northern Cheyenne -- Growing up sacred / an essay by Paula Gunn Allen -- Keeping a place for prayer : Ahjumawi (Pit river) -- River of Life : Northern Cheyenne -- Treacherous mountains : Crow -- A heritage impounded : Chumash -- A tale fo two mountains : Navajo -- Badger-two medicine : Blackfeet -- Let the spirit flow : Snoqualmie -- Rehearsals for rain : Hopi, Navajo -- Sacred places of the heart and soul / an essay by Rennard Strickland -- The preference of the White Clay People : Gros Ventre, Assiniboine -- A place of reverence : Cochiti, Jemez, Santa Ana, Sandia, Zia Pueblos -- The God of the Waters : Mendota -- The price of the sacred : Chemehuevi -- Time is running out / an essay by James Parks Morton -- Postscript : Toward a sacred lands policy initiative -- appendix : Organizations concerned with sacred lands -- Contributors -- An appreciation -- Picture credits -- The Sacred Land Film Project -- Selected further reading -- Index.

ISBN

0810906031

LCCN

^^2001001350

OCLC

• 46385870
• SCSB-12416044

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library