Title: Gift of power : the life and teachings of a Lakota medicine man /
Authors: Lame Deer, Archie Fire, 1935-; Erdoes, Richard, 1912-2008.
Publisher: Bear & Co.,
Year: 1992
Subjects: Lame Deer, Archie Fire,; Dakota Indians Biography; Shamans South Dakota Biography.; Dakota Indians Religion; Dakota Indians Medicine.; Lakota Indians Biography.; Lakota Indians Religion.; Lakota Indians Medicine.
Abstract: A modern Dakota Indian medicine man recounts his life and spiritual experiences.
Contents: The Seed Beneath the Snow -- Corn Creek -- Building a Person -- Shunka Wakan -- Alien Gods -- A Man Called John Fire -- Black Face Paint -- Chief Rattlesnake Catcher -- Hollywood Heyoka -- Lila Itomni -- Interludes -- Mitakuye Oyasin -- The Unexplainable -- Thunder Dreamers -- Song of the Earth -- Crying for a Vision -- The Gift of White Buffalo Woman -- Sacred Stones -- Eagle-Bone Whistles -- Taku Wakan.