A profoundly spiRitual book, Yuwipi describes a present-day Oglala Sioux healing Ritual that is performed for a wide range of personal crises.
Powers is the author of Oglala Religion (1977), also published by the University of Nebraska Press..
In an essay, he traces the origins of Yuwipi to Crazy Horse\'s spiRitual mentor, the medicine man Horn Chips.
Powers was adopted in boyhood by a Sioux chief and has spent thirty-five summers on the Pine Ridge, South Dakota, reservation.
About author(s): William K.
Powers is the author of Oglala Religion (1977), also published by the University of Nebraska Press.
In an essay, he traces the origins of Yuwipi to Crazy Horse\'s spiRitual mentor, the medicine man Horn Chips.
Powers was adopted in boyhood by a Sioux chief and has spent thirty-five summers on the Pine Ridge, South Dakota, reservation.
William K.
The ceremony serves not only to cure the sick but also to reaffirm the continuity of Oglala society.
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.
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.
The author combines the Yuwipi ceremony with two ancient Sioux rituals often performed in conjunction with it, the Vision quest and the sweat lodge.
The vivid narrative centers on the Experience of a hypothetical father and son in need of spiRitual and physical assistance.
A profoundly spiRitual book, Yuwipi describes a present-day Oglala Sioux healing Ritual that is performed for a wide range of personal crises
