Native American Art, Crafts, Culture, Religion
The Mystic Warriors of the Plains
Thomas E. Mails
This book is our "bible" when it comes to information on Plains Indian culture, lifestyle, crafts, tools, weapons, and etc. You name it, this book has it all. Detailed sketches (over 1000) and descriptions of just how these people made the items used during their daily life.
Highly Recommended
Fools Crow : Wisdom and Power
by Thomas E. Mails
This is an excellent account of the life of Frank Fools Crow, Lakota Medicine Man and Spiritual leader of his people during the early reservation period. This powerful writing details Fools Crows healing powers that he used only to help his people. Mails tells the poignant story of how Fools Crow struggled to keep alcohol off the reservations and to keep his people focused upon their ancient cultural ways and tribal traditions.
I had the honor of meeting Frank Fools Crow just a year before his passing. He body was old and weak, but the light of life and wisdom in his eyes was clear and powerful.
Secret Native American Pathways : A Guide to
Inner Peace
by Thomas E. Mails
This treasury of Indian lore and inspiration is fascinating, detailing the stories of ceremonies, medicine men and their awesome power.
The Sacred Pipe : Black Elk's Account of the
Seven Rites of the Oglala Sioux (Civilization of the American
Indian Series, Vol 36)
by Joseph E. Brown
(Editor)
Black Elk : The Sacred Ways of a Lakota
by Wallace H. Black
Elk, William S. Lyon (Contributor), Wallace Black Elk
Black Elk Speaks; Being the Life Story of a
Holy Man of the Oglala Sioux
by John G.
Neihardt, Vine Deloria (Designer)
This is the story of Black Elk's life, as he told it to John Neihardt through an interpreter. This book shows much about the culture and thought procces of the Oglala Sioux. Black Elk grew up in the ways of his people, seeing the leaders in a time when they fought for their lives against the US Army. But more importantly he was a spiritual leader of his people. He tried his best to prevent the disaster that seemed to overtake his people, but according to his own account he failed. His descriptions of his agony and anger at Wounded Knee are particularily vivid.
