A study of interethnic relations in the West and the principal scholarly history of the Pyramid Lake Paiute people.

As Long As the River Shall Run: An Ethnohistory of Pyramid Lake Indian Reservation

History

Stewart, Omer C.

Knack, Martha C.

Americas

Univ. Of California Pr.

Traces the development of the peyote religion among American Indians, describes its ceremonies, and assesses modern opposition to the religion

Peyote Religion: A History (Civilization of the American Indian Series)

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Univ of Oklahoma Pr

In this definitive work-a product of more than half a century of research and close observation-the noted anthropologist Omer C. Stewart provides a sweeping reconstruction of the rise of peyotism and the Native American Church. Although it is commonly known that the modern peyote religion became formalized around 1880 in western Oklahoma, it had roots in precontact American Indian ritual. Today it is practiced by thousands upon thousands of American Indians throughout the West.
Long a subject of controversy, peyotism has become a unifying influence in Indian life, providing the basis for ceremonies, friendships, social gatherings, travel, marriage, and much more. As Stewart demonstrates, it has been a source of comfort and healing and a means of expression for a troubled people.

Peyote Religion: A History (Volume 181) (The Civilization of the American Indian Series)

University of Oklahoma Press

A common stereotype about American Indians is that for centuries they lived in stataic harmony with nature in a pristine wilderness that remained unchanged until European colonization. Omer C. Stewart was one of the first anthropologists to recognize that Native Americans made significant impact across a wide range of environments. Most important, they regularly used fire to manage plant communities and associated animal species through varied and localized habitat burning. In Forgotten Fires, editors Henry T. Lewis and M. Kat Anderson present Stewart’s original research and insights, presented in the 1950s yet still provocative today.
Significant portions of Stewart’s text have not been available until now, and Lewis and Anderson set Stewart’s findings in the context of current knowledge about Native hunter-gathers and their uses of fire. This volume shows that for thousands of years, the North American landscape has been regularly shaped and renewed by the land and fire management practices of North American Indians.

Forgotten Fires: Native Americans and the Transient Wilderness

Anderson, Kat

Book by Stewart, Omer C., Aberle, David F.

Peyotism in the West (Anthropological Papers)

Religion & Spirituality

Aberle, David F.

Other Religions, Practices & Sacred Texts

Univ of Utah Pr

Navaho and Ute Peyotism: A Chronological and Distributional Study

Literature & Fiction

Literary

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