Renewing the World

"The religious and moral traditions of American Indians of the northwestern Plains during the second half of the nineteenth century represent an elaborate world view marked by ritual complexity and depth--one which envisioned the transcendent in ways that many European settlers found difficult if not impossible to comprehend. Howard Harrod's comparative study of Blackfoot, Crow, Cheyenne, and Arapaho ritual and religious experience offers insight into these symbolic universes. He views Native American religious experience not simply as responses to marginality and oppression but rather as…