Blackfoot shaking tent
By: by Claude E. Schaeffer.
Publisher: Glenbow-Alberta Institute
Published: 1969
Place of publication: Calgary
Language: eng
Number of pages: 38
Subjects: Siksika Indians -- Rites and ceremonies.
Description: Describes the Shaking Tent rite, a clairvoyant ritual, which displays several common traits - shocking and vibrating lodge, seance-like "appearance" of multiple spirits, trussed conjuror ostensibly freed by supernaturals, and use of an unintelligible language and apparent return of the spirits with the information desired.
Notes: Bibliography: p. 35-38.