Medicine (Acquisition and Application); Individual Ceremonialism (Fasting, Sweat, Sundance, Pipe); Lodges (Tipi); Social Status and the  Coups System; Kinship, Family and the Give Away: The Apsaalooke/Crow and the Plains

Dates: March 8 - 29 (5 sessions)

• Readings:  

  • Oswalt 2006: 202-237 

  • Rites of Passage and Diagram

  • Indigenous Cultural Worldview and Values (pp. 4-5 on Baaxpée/Medicine)

  • Crow Kinship 

  • Plains Family

  • Gill 2005: 19-21, 43-60, 71-74, 119-125 (review)

• Lecture Handouts and Supplementals: 

  • Crow Terms

  • Typology of Rituals

  • Crow Fasting, Crow Vision, Crow Sundance, Medicine Wheel, and the entire sequence "Younger Brother and Elder Brother" : the Sweat Lodge and Sundance (photo images)

  • Tipi Photo Gallery; printable enlargements of Crow Style Tipi and Blackfoot Style Tipi

  • Beading

  • Handgame instructions

  • Crow Pronunciation Guide

• Video:  

  • Counting Coups (9 min., the modern day example of Joe Medicine Crow, a segment from the Ken Burns' 2007 documentary on World War II, "The War," takes place in 1944 France.)

  • Handgame (65 min., a 2000 Larry Johnson film)

  • Sundance Way (57 min., as told by Tom Yellowtail, a 2007 film)   

  • Vision Quest  (4 min., as told by Tom Yellowtail, a 2007 film)

  • Circle of the Sun (29 min., this classic 1960 film tells the story of the Blood Sundance through the eyes of Pete Standing Alone.

  • Standing Alone (57 min., this 1982 film chronicles a 25-year period in the life of Pete Standing Alone, from his oil-rig and rodeo rider days, to his the present day attempts are preserving his Blood traditions and spiritual ways.

   

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