rites and ceremonies

Surveys the Native American healing and health care practices from the time of first European contact up to the present. Includes a chapter profiling some Native American healers.

A history of the rich spirituality of Native American Indians, focusing on the different religious traditions among the tribes.

Explores a Latina girl's coming of age ceremony, discussing the origins and cultural importance of a quincea?era and providing insight into the financial and social implications of a quince party.

Text and accompanying photographs present the Native American history of lacrosse, a sport with worldwide popularity and over 300,000 non-Indian players in the United States and Canada.

Discusses the spirit world rites of the Indians of North America with information on visions, relationship to animals, and more.

Step back in time and spend a day with Little Wolf and his sister, Skye, in an ancient Cherokee village on the feast day of Itse Selu.

A twelve-year-old Ojibwa Indian living in Minneapolis, Minnesota, learns about her tribe's traditional costumes from her grandmother and gets ready to dance at a powwow.

Presents volume nine of a fourteen-volume series on World Religions exploring the origin, development, and traditional beliefs of Native American religions including their ceremonies and rituals, common traits shared between several tribes, and the relationship between Native American religions and Christianity.

Describes the traditional Jewish ceremonies celebrating birth, puberty, marriage, and death.