Title: Blackfoot shaking tent
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.
Subjects: Siksika Indians, Rites and ceremonies, North American Indians