The Seven Visions of Bull Lodge
Subtitle: As Told by His Daughter, Garter Snake
By: Gathered by Fred P. Gone; Edited by George Horse Capture.
Contributors: Gone, Fred P.; Horse Capture, George P.
Edition: First Bison Book
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Published: 1992
Place of publication: Lincoln, NE
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 125
ISBN-13: 9780803272569
Copyright date: 1980
Subjects: Bull Lodge, 1802?-1886; Atsina Indians -- Biography; Atsina Indians -- Religion; Atsina Indians -- Rites and ceremonies
Other titles: The Seven Visions of Bull Lodge
Description: "Provides real insight into the religion of the nineteenth-century Gros Ventre (Atsina) Indians. Known to themselves as the White Clay People, this little-known tribe now shares the Fort Belknap Reservation in Montana with the Assiniboines. However, throughout much of their recorded history they were allied with the Blackfeet. The book is a record of the spiritual life of Bull Lodge (born ca. 1802, died 1886), religious leader, healer, and for a time, keeper of the Feathered Pipe, one of the two tribal objects of the Gros Ventres. . . . [It] makes absorbing reading. Beginning at the age of twelve, Bull Lodge sought spiritual power through the tribal Feathered Pipe. From the ages of seventeen to twenty-three he was favored with a series of seven visions on seven buttes that together outline a Gros Ventre cultural geography. . . . 
"The strength of the narrative is the rich detail of ritual description: fasting, sacrifices, vision experiences, the practices of healing. By describing ritual in the context of a man's life, the book gives a uniquely historical understanding of the dynamics of traditional religious life. It provides deeper understanding of the Gros Ventres' way of life and gives a valuable comparative perspective on plains Indian religion."—Raymond J. DeMallie, Western Historical Quarterly.
Notes: Originally published: Ann Arbor, Mich. : Bear Claw Press, c1980.
"A Bison book."
Reprinted by arrangement with George P. Horse Capture.
Table of contents: title: Introduction by George Horse Capture
pagenum: 11; title: A Prefatory Note by Fred Gone
pagenum: 21; title: THE SEVEN VISIONS OF BULL LODGE
pagenum: 27; title: 1. Seven Visions on Seven Buttes
pagenum: 29; title: 2. From Warrior to Healer
pagenum: 59; title: 3. Medicine Man, Pipe Keeper, Father
pagenum: 78; title: 4. The Last Experience
pagenum: 89; title: THE STORY OF THE FEATHERED PIPE
pagenum: 103; title: Appendix: Garter Snake As Pipe Child
pagenum: 123