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Yuwipi: Vision and Experience in Oglala Ritual

Yuwipi: Vision and Experience in Oglala Ritual - Paperback

by William K. Powers
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Availability:In StockContributor:William K. PowersPublish date:1984-08-01Pages:113
Language:EnglishPublisher:University of Nebraska PressISBN-13:9780803287105ISBN-10:803287100UPC:9780803287105Book Category:Social Science, HistoryBook Subcategory:Ethnic Studies, United StatesBook Topic:AmericanSize:8.00 x 5.27 x 0.31 inchesWeight:0.3109Product ID:SCEHTS9MH9
A profoundly spiritual book, Yuwipi describes a present-day Oglala Sioux healing ritual that is performed for a wide range of personal crises. The vivid narrative centers on the experience of a hypothetical father and son in need of spiritual and physical assistance.

The author combines the Yuwipi ceremony with two ancient Sioux rituals often performed in conjunction with it, the vision quest and the sweat lodge. Wayne Runs Again, suffering from alcoholism and worried about his father's health, seeks out a shaman who, while bound in darkness, calls on supernatural beings to free him and to communicate. While the young man undergoes purification in a sweat lodge and waits on a hill for a vision, the community prays for him and his father. The ceremony serves not only to cure the sick but also to reaffirm the continuity of Oglala society.

Language:EnglishPublisher:University of Nebraska PressISBN-13:9780803287105ISBN-10:803287100UPC:9780803287105Book Category:Social Science, HistoryBook Subcategory:Ethnic Studies, United StatesBook Topic:AmericanSize:8.00 x 5.27 x 0.31 inchesWeight:0.3109Product ID:SCEHTS9MH9
William K. Powers was adopted in boyhood by a Sioux chief and has spent thirty-five summers on the Pine Ridge, South Dakota, reservation. In an essay, he traces the origins of Yuwipi to Crazy Horse's spiritual mentor, the medicine man Horn Chips. Powers is the author of Oglala Religion (1977), also published by the University of Nebraska Press.
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press

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