Black Elk: The Sacred Ways of a Lakota

7 best books like Black Elk: The Sacred Ways of a Lakota (Wallace Black Elk): Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West, Black Elk Speaks: Being the Life Story of a Holy Man of the Oglala Sioux, The Teachings of Don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge, The Varieties of Religious Experience, The Sacred Pipe: Black Elk's Account of the Seven Rites of the Oglala Sioux, Rolling Thunder, Seven Arrows

Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West

Author	Dee Brown
ISBN	0805066691

Now a special 30th-anniversary edition in both hardcover and paperback, the classic bestselling history The New York Times called "Original, remarkable, and finally heartbreaking...Impossible to put down."

Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee is Dee Brown's eloquent, fully documented account...

Black Elk Speaks: Being the Life Story of a Holy Man of the Oglala Sioux

Author	Black Elk
ISBN	0803283857

This is a haunting and moving transcription of interviews with the revered medicine man Black Elk of the Oglala band of the Lakota Sioux in 1930 at the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota. The editor, John Neihart, was a poet who was writing an epic poem about Messiah movement in the 1880’s among diverse...

The Teachings of Don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge

Author	Carlos Castaneda
ISBN	0671227424

You may find this book has a lot of chaff on how they prepare peyote and other drugs, mundane descriptions in diary... yet when you less expect it, they hit you with a boulder of wisdom that leaves you freezed.

There is ONE core idea in the book that makes the price tag disappear. You cannot pay for...

The Varieties of Religious Experience

Author	William James
ISBN	1402199031

"I am neither a theologian, nor a scholar learned in the history of religions, nor an anthropologist. Psychology is the only branch of learning in which I am particularly versed. To the psychologist the religious propensities of man must be at least as interesting as any other of the facts pertaining...

The Sacred Pipe: Black Elk's Account of the Seven Rites of the Oglala Sioux

Author	Black Elk
ISBN	0806121246

Black Elk of the Sioux has been recognized as one of the truly remarkable men of his time in the matter of religious belief and practice. Shortly before his death in August, 1950, when he was the "keeper of the sacred pipe," he said, "It is my prayer that, through our sacred pipe, and through this book in which...

Rolling Thunder

Author	Doug Boyd
ISBN	0440574358

Rolling Thunder (birth name John Pope; b. 1916, d.1997) was a Native American medicine man. He was born into the Cherokee nation and later moved to Nevada and lived with the Western Shoshone. He essentially married into the Shoshone tribe when he united with his first wife, Spotted Fawn, who preceded...

Seven Arrows

Author	Hyemeyohsts Storm
ISBN	0345329015

Seven Arrowsis weird and difficult and interesting and you should read it and I don’t say that lightly.
It comes with a load of caveats. Seven Arrows is a book about Sundance, the relgion/philosophy of the native peoples of the Great Plains of North America, told by an (alleged) Cheyenne medicine...