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American Indian healing arts, herbs, rituals, and remedies for every season of life, E. Barrie Kavasch and Karen Baar

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American Indian healing arts, herbs, rituals, and remedies for every season of life, E. Barrie Kavasch and Karen Baar
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eng
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 289-292) and index
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illustrations
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index present
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non fiction
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American Indian healing arts
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bibliography
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E. Barrie Kavasch and Karen Baar
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herbs, rituals, and remedies for every season of life
Summary
Presents an exploration of Native American rituals that fostered a spiritual bond between man and nature, and offers recipes for herbal remedies, and massage oils
Table Of Contents
Healing the traditional way -- Birth and infancy : "Thank you for coming to our village" -- Childhood : Consecration of the boy to thunder -- Puberty : Changing woman -- Adolescence : "The little brother of war" -- Adulthood : "Leap over the adversaries of life" -- Fertility, midwifery, and childbearing : "For it is she who gives birth" -- Middle age : Faces in the landscape -- Old age : The old woman who never dies -- Death, the afterlife, and the spirit world : Footprints that fade on the path -- An American Indian medicine chest : Gifts from Mother Earth -- Glossary of tribes -- Appendices : Lexicon of herbs, fungi, and minerals ; A directory of resources and suppliers
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