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Publication Date: 1994
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Walking the Sky: Visionary Traditions of the Great Plains.
Irwin, Lee
Great Plains Quarterly, v14 n4 p257-71 Fall 1994
Uses ethnographic materials of the past 150 years to examine the visionary traditions of Native Americans of the Great Plains. Presents a Native American worldview in which dreams and visions represent contacts with primordial sources of empowerment and knowledge and play a creative role in the formation and maintenance of cultural values. (SV)
Descriptors: American Indian Culture, American Indians, Dreams, Epistemology, Ethnography, Experience, Group Unity, Religion, Symbolism, World Views
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Language: English
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