Reincarnation Beliefs of North American Indians

This book provides an in-depth look at Native American spiritual experiences and beliefs about death and the after-life. The well-researched stories and commentary presented here are drawn from primary sources of information, traditional myths, and anthropological records. They present a fascinating look into the rich and varied psychic life of the American Indian. Readers will learn about a Winnebago shaman's initiation, the Cherokee's Orpheus myth, the story of "A Journey to the Skeleton House" from the Hopi, the Inuit man who lived the lives of all animals, the Ghost Dance, and other extraordinary accounts. For the most part the stories are from the past, but there is also a contemporary account of rebirth, for the experience of reincarnation is still real today for many Native people.