All My Relatives – Exploring Lakota Ontology – Belief and Ritual – David C. Posthumus
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Description The author explores how Lakota animist beliefs permeate the understanding of the real world in relation to such phenomena as the personhood of rocks, ghosts or spirits of deceased humans and animals, meteorological phenomena, familiar spirits of spirit helpers, and medicine bundles. He offers new insight into traditional Lakota culture for a deeper and more enduring understanding of indigenous cosmology, ontology, religion, beliefs and rituals. 281 pages.
