CONTENTS -- Preface by Philip J. Deloria xiii -- Prologue:Traditional Religion Today xvii -- Introduction:The Universe of Spirits xxiii -- Chapter One Dreams-The Approach of the Sacred 1 -- Eagle Shield's Dream 2 -- Brave Buffalo's Dream about the Elks 3 -- Black Elk's Dream/Vision 5 -- The Dangers of Daydreaming 6 -- George Schmidt's Daydream 6 -- Shared Dreams 8 -- The Sacred Intrusion 9 -- Goose's Experience 10 -- Bush's Buffalo Spirits 11 -- Horn Chips's Blessing 13 -- The Nature of the Medicine Man 13 -- Lone Man-Teton Sioux 15 -- Men's Vision Quest Experiences 16 -- Siya'ka Explaining the Vision Quest 18 -- Lame Deer, a Brule Sioux Medicine Man,Explaining the Vision Quest 20 -- Lame Deer's Experience 20 -- The Jesuit Account of the Vision Quest 21 -- Siya'ka's Vision 23 -- Two Leggings's Vision 25 -- Blows Down's Vision 28 -- Smoking Star's Name 29 -- Le Borgne's Vision 30 -- Women's Vision Quest Experiences 31 -- Catherine Wabose's Vision 31 -- Pretty Shield's Vision 35 -- A Pawnee Woman's Dream 36 -- Another Pawnee Woman's Visions 36 -- Mary Sdipp-shin-mah's Vision 37 -- Visions in Transition 39 -- John Slocum's Vision 40 -- Minnie Enemy Heart's Vision 41 -- Chapter TwoPowers Conferred on the Medicine Men 43 -- Healings 43 -- Thunder Cloud Receives Healing Powers 44 -- Navajo Diagnosticians 45 -- Finding the Cure 47 -- Dr. Perry of Massachusetts 49 -- Sitting Bull's Self Remedy 50 -- White Crow's Healing 51 -- Instant Nautical Healing 52 -- Reviving the Dead 52 -- Northern Barred Owl's Remedy 53 -- Healing Severe Gunshot Wounds 55 -- Black Elk's Experience 56 -- Eagle Shield's Triumph 56 -- Omaha Buffalo Medicine Men 57 -- Beyond Hope 60 -- Healing Witchcraft 60 -- Southwestern Healing Practices 61 -- Pawnee Injury and Treatment Incidents 62 -- Sun's Road's Discovery and Recovery 63.

Plenty Crows's, A Famous Medicine Man of theCheyenne, Healing 64 -- The Horse Doctor 65 -- Locating Lost Objects 67 -- Goose Finds a Rifle 67 -- White Shield's Tasks 68 -- Bear Necklace's Stones 70 -- Young Bird's Psychic Powers 72 -- John Fornsby's Guardian Power Boards 72 -- Dr. Jim's Song 75 -- Unusual Predictions 75 -- Predicting for the French Soldiers 76 -- The Tobacco Prediction 76 -- Predicting the Traders' Arrival 78 -- The Blackfeet Prophet 81 -- Chapter Three Continuing Communications 83 -- The Yuwipi Ceremony 84 -- The Yuwipi Spirits 85 -- Red Bird's Yuwipi 86 -- The Spirit Lodge Ritual 88 -- Jesuit Report 90 -- Andrew J. Blackbird's Account 91 -- Henry R. Schoolcraft's Report 92 -- Paul Kane's Experience 93 -- Saulteaux Conjuring 95 -- Catherine Wabose's Experience 96 -- James W. Schultz's Report 97 -- Sir Cecil Denny's Experience 98 -- The Montagnais Practices 99 -- J. G. Kohl's Story 100 -- A. Irving Hallowell's Confessions 101 -- Muskogee Practices 102 -- Cheyenne Spirit Lodge Ritual 103 -- The Spirit Lodge Cure 104 -- A Kiowa Spirit Lodge 105 -- Chapter Four Interspecies Relations 107 -- Interspecies Communication-Birds 107 -- Luther Standing Bear 109 -- Interspecies Communications-Animals 111 -- Black Elk's Experience 111 -- White Bull's Experience 113 -- William Rowland's Story 114 -- Jim Bridger's Experience . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .114 -- The Coyote Helps the War Party 116 -- Animal Powers 116 -- Luther Standing Bear's Experience 116 -- Yellow Fish's Tragedy 118 -- Buffalo of the Sun 119 -- Animals Admonishing Humans 121 -- Many Tail Feathers's Father's Dream 121 -- The Bears Warn the Hunter 122 -- Rising Wolf 's Protective Warbonnet 123 -- Chapter Five The Land and the Cosmos 125 -- Sons-in-Jah and Desert Potatoes 126 -- Making Plants Grow 126 -- The Pawnee Corn Growers 127 -- Growing the Cedar Berry 128.

The Pawnee Blind Man 128 -- Plenty Fingers Feeds His Children 129 -- Navajo Corn Growers 130 -- Navajo Seed Giving 131 -- Pueblo Seed Grass Ceremony 132 -- Zuni Corn Growers 133 -- Changes in the Weather 135 -- Bringing Rain 137 -- Chiricahua Apache Ceremony 137 -- The Unfortunate Mexican 137 -- Changing the Nature of a Storm 139 -- The Texas Alabama Tradition 139 -- Wooden Leg's Story 140 -- Last Horse's Miracle 141 -- The Blackfeet Medicine Men Contest 142 -- Fulfilling Big Bear's Request 143 -- Enlisting the Weather as an Aid 144 -- The Sin'-o-pah Weather Control 144 -- Chiricahua Storm Medicine 145 -- Ruffled Feathers Calms the Waters 146 -- Rain as an Affirmation of a Blessing 146 -- The Old Hunkpapa Sioux Chief 147 -- Chapter Six Sacred Stones and Places 149 -- Sacred Stones 149 -- The Picture Rocks 150 -- Black Elk 150 -- Incident at Cannon Ball 151 -- Old Mandan's Picture Rock 152 -- Sweat Lodge Stones 153 -- Medicine Stones 154 -- Horn Chips's Stones 155 -- Buffalo Stones That Call the Blackfeet 156 -- Medicine Crow's Mother's Stones 156 -- Healings with Stones-Frances Densmore's Summary 158 -- Calling the Buffalo 159 -- Listening to the Ground's Fossil Stone 159 -- Goose Calls a Buffalo 160 -- Crooked Foot Finds the Buffalo 161 -- Powerful Places 161 -- The Comanches Discovered a Sacred Site 162 -- The Pipestone Quarry 163 -- The Island Sacred Rock 164 -- The Standing Rock Sun Dance Site 165 -- Chapter Seven Unusual Exploits of Medicine Men 167 -- Early Colonial Observations 167 -- Feat of Ice or White Bull at Busby in 1867 169 -- Ice's Account 169 -- The Aoutaenhrobi Fire Ritual 171 -- Holding the Jar with Feathers 173 -- Calling up of the Waters 174 -- Invulnerability to Arrows and Bullets 175 -- Bear Claws's Power 175 -- Brave Buffalo's Feat 176 -- Old Man S 177 -- Box Elder's Exploit 178 -- The Powers of Crazy Mule 178.

Powers of Animation 179 -- The Choctaw Medicine Man 180 -- Feat of Elk Left Behind 180 -- The Arickara Bear Medicine Society Buffalo Hunt 181 -- Eagle Feathers Dancing 184 -- The Power of Invisibility 185 -- The Shawnee's Power 186 -- The Apache Invisibility Tactic 186 -- Hiding from the Flying Man 187 -- The Invisible Woman 188 -- Lame Medicine Man Causes Blindness 188 -- Producing Anomalous Things 189 -- Buffalo Lump's Bullets 190 -- A Unified Smoke 190 -- Chapter Eight The Spiritual Universe 193 -- Substance 195 -- Space 201 -- Navajos Moving the Sun 203 -- A Navajo Thunderstorm 204 -- Time 206 -- Geronimo's Power 206 -- The Length of a Lifetime 207 -- Brave Buffalo's Expectations 207 -- Black Elk's Expectation 207 -- Plenty Coups, Chief of the Crows 208 -- A Chiricahua Apache Prediction 209 -- Two Leggings 209 -- The Buffalo and Hillside 209 -- The Nighthawk Ceremony Prediction 210 -- The Circumstances of Death 211 -- Siya'ka's Death 212 -- Endnotes 215 -- Bibliography 227.