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Plants of power : Native American ceremony and the use of sacred plants / Alfred Savinelli.

by Savinelli, Alfred, 1953-

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Summertown, Tenn. : Native Voices, c2002.

Indians of North America -- Rites and ceremonies.

Indians of North America -- Ethnobotany.

Indian cosmology -- North America.

Plants -- North America -- Religious aspects.

Medicinal plants -- North America.

Aromatic plants -- North America.

1570671303 (pbk.)

9781570671302 (pbk.)

128 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

pt. I. The uses of sacred plants in ceremony -- The ancestors help us to practice -- Prayers for first things -- The birth of things, morning prayers -- First rituals -- Prayers and incense offerings at birth, separation from the mother, baby-naming -- Rites of initiation, rites of passage -- Preparing for womanhood -- Preparing for manhood -- Crying for a vision ceremony -- Sweat lodge ceremony -- The Sun dance -- Rites of last things -- The keeping of the soul rite -- Releasing of the soul rite -- Ceremonies and prayers, the use of cedar and juniper, before bedtime -- The four directions -- Winnebago prayer -- pt. II. The plants -- Incense cedar -- Red cedar -- Copal -- Juniper -- Lavender -- Mugwort -- Osha -- Piñon, nut pine -- White sage -- Desert sage -- Sweet grass -- Ceremonial tobacco -- Red willow bark, red osher dogwood -- Yerba santa.

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