The Night Chant: A Navaho Ceremony

A detailed record of Apache medicine men, their treatments, sacred pollen, medicine cords and amulets, with comparisons drawn from dozens of other peoples. One of the most thorough nineteenth century accounts of its kind.

John G. Bourke

The Grand Medicine Society described from the inside: initiation degrees, birch bark song scrolls, herbal knowledge and the pictographs used to record it all. Illustrated with colour plates of the original charts.

Walter James Hoffman

Dorsey collected beliefs and ceremonies from the Omaha, Ponca, Osage, Dakota and their neighbours, recording sacred objects, vision quests and the work of the medicine man in each group.

James Owen Dorsey

The origin myth, initiation and memorial rites of the Mitawin lodge, recorded in the early twentieth century with notes on how neighbouring peoples ran the same ceremony.

Alanson Skinner