Becoming and remaining a people
Subtitle: Native American religions on the Northern Plains
By: Howard L. Harrod.
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
Published: 1995
Place of publication: Tucson
Language: eng
Number of pages: 149
Subjects: Indians of North America -- Great Plains -- Religion; Indians of North America -- Great Plains -- Rites and ceremonies; Indians of North America -- Great Plains -- Social conditions; Social change -- Great Plains; Great Plains -- Religious life and customs
Description: The power of religion to preserve individual and group identity is perhaps nowhere more evident than among Native American peoples. In the Becoming and Remaining a People the author shows how the oral traditions and ritual practices of Northern Plains Indians developed, how they were transformed at critical points in their history, and how they provided them with crucial means of establishing and maintaining their respective identities.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [133]-140) and index.
Table of contents: title: Social change on the Northern Plains; title: Continuity and change in Northern Plains religions; title: Religious development in the village societies; title: Religious organizations and ritual processes; title: Religious continuity and change in the village societies; title: Religious transformations on the Northern Plains; title: American Indian religions and the construction of cultures.