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Author Cohen, Ken, 1952-

Title Honoring the medicine : the essential guide to Native American healing / Kenneth "Bear Hawk" Cohen.

Publication Info. New York : Ballantine Books, 2003.

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Location Call No. Status
 Bristol, Main Library - Non Fiction  615.88 C66    Check Shelf
 Mansfield, Main Library - Adult Nonfiction  615.882 COHEN    Check Shelf
Edition First edition.
Description xx, 428 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Note "One World."
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 384-411) and index.
Contents Native American or American Indian : can you be politically correct -- pt. 1. Principles and values -- The Native American philosophy of life -- 1. The power of silence -- The four winds : getting oriented in the realm of the sacred -- 3. The cycles of truth : wisdom from the wolf -- 4. The vision and vision quest : messages from the spirit -- 5. Where healing dwells : the importance of sacred space -- 6. Asking for help : finding and paying a healer -- pt. 2. Methods of healing -- 7. What is involved in a Native American healing : traditions, protocols, and moontime power -- 8. The principles of Native American counseling -- 9. Cultivating the good mind : a counselor's gardening tools -- 10. Massage and energy therapies -- 11. The paleolithic posture -- 12. Unfolding the mystery : sweat lodge and sacred pipe -- 13. Tobacco : wicked weed or gift of the Gods -- 14. Plant people : the healing power of herbs.
Subject Life Style.
Local Subject Indigenous peoples -- North America -- Medicine.
Subject Indians of North America -- Medicine.
Indian philosophy -- North America.
Complementary Therapies -- methods.
Local Subject Indigenous peoples, North American -- psychology.
Subject Indians, North American -- psychology.
Local Subject Indigenous philosophy -- North America.
ISBN 0345395301
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