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Title Native universe : voices of Indian America / Gerald McMaster and Clifford E. Trafzer, editors ; [by Native American tribal leaders, writers, scholars, and storytellers ; with a foreword by W. Richard West].

Publication Info. Washington, D.C. : National Geographic, [2004]
©2004

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Description 320 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color maps ; 32 cm
Note "National Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian Institution."
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 308-312) and index.
Contents Defining past and future / W. Richard West, Jr. -- A new journey / Gerald McMaster, Clifford E. Trafzer -- Our universes -- Ceremony and ritual: life in motion / John C. Mohawk -- Heart of heaven, heart of earth: the Maya worldview / Victor Montejo -- Keeping the original instructions / Gabrielle Tayac -- Portfolio: our universes -- Carriers of the dream wheel / N. Scott Momaday -- Sacred Feline / José Montaõ -- Our peoples -- Promises made, promises broken / Vine Deloria, Jr. -- Indian education, American education / Brenda J. Child -- Season of struggle / Paul Chaat Smith -- Alcatraz Proclamation -- Portfolio: our peoples -- This land belongs to us / Tatanka Yotanka (Sitting Bull) -- Our lives -- Coming Home / James Pepper Henry -- A new path for the people / Wilma Mankiller -- Deer dance / Linda Hogan -- The radiant curve: Navajo ceremony in contemporary life / Luci Tapahonso -- Powwow / George P. Horse Capture -- Portfolio: our lives -- Smoke signals / Sherman Alexie -- Dear John Wayne / Louise Erdrich.
Subject Indians -- History.
Indian cosmology.
Indians -- Material culture.
Indians -- Social life and customs.
America -- Antiquities.
Local Subject Indigenous cosmology.
Indigenous people -- History.
Indigenous people -- Material culture.
Indigenous people -- Social life and customs.
Added Author McMaster, Gerald, 1953-
Trafzer, Clifford E.
National Museum of the American Indian (U.S.)
ISBN 0792259947
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