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American Indian Places by Frances H. Kennedy
Call Number: E 77.9 .A44 2008
ISBN: 9780395633366
Publication Date: 2008
This historical guidebook includes 366 places that are significant to American Indians and open to the public. The book is organized geographically and includes location information, maps, and color photographs as well as suggestions for further reading about the sites and an extensive bibliography.
The Archaeology and Rock Art of Swordfish Cave by Clayton G. Lebow (Editor); Douglas R. Harro (Editor); Rebecca L. McKim (Editor)
ISBN: 9781607814580
Publication Date: 2015
Swordfish Cave is a well-known rock art site located on Vandenberg Air Force Base in south central California. Named for the swordfish painted on its wall, the cave is a sacred Chumash site. It was under threat from various processes and required measures to conserve it. Nearly all of the cave's interior was excavated to create a rock art viewing area. That effort revealed previously unknown rock art and made it possible to closely examine how early occupants used the space inside the cave.
Big Sycamore Stands Alone by Ian W. Record
Call Number: E 99.A6 R33 2008
ISBN: 9780806139722
Publication Date: 2008
Western Apaches have long regarded the corner of Arizona encompassing Aravaipa Canyon as their sacred homeland. This book examines the evolving relationship between this people and this place, illustrating the enduring power of Aravaipa to shape and sustain contemporary Apache society.
Cave Rock by Matthew S. Makley; Michael J. Makley
ISBN: 9780874178487
Publication Date: 2010
On August 27, 2007, the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld an earlier district court ruling that sport climbing on a Washoe Indian sacred site in western Nevada must cease. Cave Rock, a towering monolith jutting over the shore of Lake Tahoe, has been sacred to the Washoe people for over five thousand years. Long abused by road builders and vandals, it earned new fame in the late twentieth century as a world-class sport rock-climbing site. Over twenty years of bitter disputes and confrontation between the Washoe and the climbers ensued.
The Common Pot by Lisa Brooks
ISBN: 9780816666294
Publication Date: 2008
Lisa Brooks demonstrates the ways in which Native leaders--including Samson Occom, Joseph Brant, Hendrick Aupaumut, and William Apess--adopted writing as a tool to reclaim rights and land in the Native networks of what is now the northeastern United States. "The Common Pot," a metaphor that appears in Native writings during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, embodies land, community, and the shared space of sustenance among relations.
For This Land by Vine Deloria, Jr.; James Treat (Editor)
Call Number: E 98.R3 D43 1999
ISBN: 9780415921145
Publication Date: 1998
From the beginning of the American experiment, Deloria notes, the unique beliefs and rituals of indigenous American religion have been replaced by the polity and practice of European Christianity. To return to the values of a distinctly American religion, he asserts, means recognizing that the American land serves as the fountain of human existence and the standard of religious revelation in this place.
In the Maw of the Earth Monster by James E. Brady (Editor); Keith M. Prufer (Editor)
ISBN: 9780292797352
Publication Date: 2009
As portals to the supernatural realm that creates and animates the universe, caves have always been held sacred by the peoples of Mesoamerica. From ancient times to the present, Mesoamericans have made pilgrimages to caves for ceremonies ranging from rituals of passage to petitions for rain and a plentiful harvest.

Books M-Z

Mississippian Towns and Sacred Spaces by R. Barry Lewis; Charles B. Stout
ISBN: 9780585342450
Publication Date: 1998
In this volume, prominent archaeologists examine the architectural design spaces of Mississippian towns and mound centers of the eastern United States.
Religion on the Rocks by Aaron M. Wright
ISBN: 9781607813651
Publication Date: 2014
Religion on the Rocks redirects our attention to the equally important matter of what compelled ancient farmers to craft rock art in the first place. To answer this, Aaron Wright presents a case study from Arizona's South Mountains, an area once flanked by several densely populated Hohokam villages.
Sacred Lands of Indian America by Jake Page; Charles E. Little; David Muench (By (photographer))
Call Number: REF E 98.R3 L357 2001
ISBN: 9780810906037
Publication Date: 2001
Sacred lands of Indian America celebrates, in word and vivid photographic images, some of the most beautiful and spiritually moving landscapes in America.
Shaman, Priest, Practice, Belief by Stephen B. Carmody (Editor, Contribution by) et. al.
ISBN: 9780817392727
Publication Date: 2019
Archaeological case studies consider material evidence of religion and ritual in the pre-Columbian Eastern Woodlands Archaeologists today are interpreting Native American religion and ritual in the distant past in more sophisticated ways, considering new understandings of the ways that Native Americans themselves experienced them.
Where the Lightning Strikes by Peter Nabokov
Call Number: E 98.R3 N33 2006
ISBN: 9780670034321
Publication Date: 2006
For thousands of years Native Americans have told stories about the powers of revered landscapes and sought spiritual direction at mysterious locations in their homelands. In Where the Lightning Strikes, Peter Nabokov offers sixteen biographies of place that dramatize the rich diversity of Indian cultures and their religious systems across North America.

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