The Gift of the Sacred Pipe: Based on Black Elk's Account of the Seven Rites of the Oglala Sioux

The Gift of the Sacred Pipe: Based on Black Elk's Account of the Seven Rites of the Oglala Sioux

Oglala Indians -- Rites and ceremonies

Black Elk

Norman : University of Oklahoma Press

as originally recorded and edited by Joseph Epes Brown ; edited and illustrated by Vera Louise Drysdale

Foreward -- The white buffalo woman -- The keeping of the soul -- The rite of purification -- Crying for a vision -- The Sun Dance -- The making of relatives -- Her alone they sing over -- The throwing of the ball -- Index.

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