Dreamers without power
Subtitle: the Menomini Indians
By: by George Spindler and Louise Spindler.
Contributors: Spindler, Louise S., joint author.
Series: Case studies in cultural anthropology
Publisher: Holt, Rinehart, and Winston
Published: 1971
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 208
Subjects: Menominee Indians.
Notes: Bibliography: p. 205-208.
Table of contents: title: The adaptation -- The consequences -- To what did they adapt? -- The confrontation -- The consequences of confrontation -- That which was lost -- The plan -- What they are like. Interpretation -- How the system works.  The economic base -- Social organization as related to the economic base -- The world around them : Menomini cosmology -- Power : getting and maintaining it -- Ceremonial organizations as related to power -- Witchcraft and social control -- Becoming a Menomini.  Attitudes toward children -- Constraints upon behavior and sex -- Social participation -- Storytelling and preaching -- Conclusions -- The ideology -- The peyote ritual and meeting -- Symbolism -- Inspiration and instruction through the medicine -- Conversion -- Visions. Visions and curing -- Prophecy in visions -- Heaven -- Episodes -- Heavenly message -- The king’s palace -- In-group symbolism -- Peyote power -- Protection -- Peyote cures -- Attempted cure and prophetic notification -- An unsuccessful attempt -- Peyotism and psychological process -- Recruitment -- The peyote women -- Conclusion -- George Ketami -- Louie Kesek -- Frank Bear -- The transitional position -- Women and witchcraft -- Interpretation -- Women and men -- Their sociocultural position -- Their psychological position -- Will there be a Menomini culture? -- Will there be Menomini? -- From the people -- Enter the whiteman -- References -- Recommended reading.