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Author Paper, Jordan D.

Title Offering smoke : the sacred pipe and native American religion / Jordan Paper.

Publication Info. Moscow, Idaho : University of Idaho Press, [1988]
©1988

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 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  299.74 P214O    Check Shelf
Description xv, 161 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm
Contents Prologue: Pipe and tobacco in Native American religions. A modern pipe ceremony ; Tobacco in Native American religions ; Ways of ritually using tobacco ; The sacred pipe -- The sacred pipe in ritual. Ethnohistorical descriptions of sacred pipe ritual ; Ethnographic descriptions ; Analysis ; Cosmological implications of sacred pipe ritual -- The sacred pipe and myth. The giving of the pipe ; Pipe and tobacco in cosmogonic myths ; Pipestone ; "All my relations" : the theology of the sacred pipe -- Description and symbolism. Types of pipes ; Description of the sacred pipe ; Bowl symbolism ; Stem symbolism -- Geography and history. Distribution ; Pan-Indian implications ; The past ; Conclusions -- Epilogue: Persecution and revitalization. Reservations and subjugation ; Adaptation and revitalization ; Christianity and religious freedom ; The circle -- Appendix I. Notes on methodology -- Appendix II. Data on sacred pipes.
Note Includes index.
Bibliography Bibliography: pages [141]-155.
Subject Calumets.
Indians of North America -- Rites and ceremonies.
Indians of North America -- Religion.
Local Subject Indigenous peoples -- North America -- Religion.
Indigenous peoples -- North America -- Rites and ceremonies.
ISBN 0893011266
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