| Yuwipi: Vision and Experience in Oglala Ritual Revised Edition Contributor(s): Powers, William K. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0803287100 ISBN-13: 9780803287105 Publisher: University of Nebraska Press OUR PRICE: $13.46 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: August 1984 Annotation: Yuwipi is the present-day Oglala Sioux version of an ancient and widespread ritual in which a shaman is bound and, in the darkness, call spirits to come and free him and to communicate with his audience. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Ethnic Studies - Native American Studies - History | United States - General |
| Dewey: 299.74 |
| LCCN: 81010501 |
| Lexile Measure: 1200 |
| Physical Information: 0.31" H x 5.27" W x 8" (0.31 lbs) 113 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Plains - Ethnic Orientation - Native American - Geographic Orientation - Nebraska - Geographic Orientation - South Dakota |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: A profoundly spiritual book, Yuwipi describes a present-day Oglala Sioux healing ritual that is performed for a wide range of personal crises. The vivid narrative centers on the experience of a hypothetical father and son in need of spiritual and physical assistance. The author combines the Yuwipi ceremony with two ancient Sioux rituals often performed in conjunction with it, the vision quest and the sweat lodge. Wayne Runs Again, suffering from alcoholism and worried about his father's health, seeks out a shaman who, while bound in darkness, calls on supernatural beings to free him and to communicate. While the young man undergoes purification in a sweat lodge and waits on a hill for a vision, the community prays for him and his father. The ceremony serves not only to cure the sick but also to reaffirm the continuity of Oglala society. William K. Powers was adopted in boyhood by a Sioux chief and has spent thirty-five summers on the Pine Ridge, South Dakota, reservation. In an essay, he traces the origins of Yuwipi to Crazy Horse's spiritual mentor, the medicine man Horn Chips. Powers is the author of Oglala Religion (1977), also published by the University of Nebraska Press. |