Big Medicine from Six Nations

by Williams, Ted

• ISBN13: 9780815608639
• ISBN10: 0815608632
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-03-01
• Publisher: SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY PRESS

Summary

"My father was fifty years old when I was born. His friends, of his age and older, could therefore be two generations ahead of mine. "At night, when I was supposed to be in bed asleep, I'd be on the floor with my ear over the grille of the air register, listening to the talk between my father and his friends. My father was an Indian doctor,' so many of his friends, even from other reservations, would be talking 'Medicine talk.' Today we might describe that kind of talk as 'extrasensory perception (ESP) oriented.'

Table of Contents

Illustrations	p. xi
Foreword	p. xiii
Acknowledgments	p. xix
Opening
Dear Readers	p. 3
Prelude to the Prelude	p. 7
Prelude to the Thanksgiving Address	p. 8
The Thanksgiving Address	p. 10
Medicines and Poisons
The Second Death of Bill Uh	p. 23
The Way It Is	p. 27
Another Form of Medicine	p. 31
Uncle Charley	p. 35
Isaiah Joseph	p. 40
Ethel Wahoo	p. 49
Davey Roy	p. 55
The Devil	p. 57
Reservation Witches	p. 60
Another Spooky Place	p. 72
I'sic oi(t), Asa, and Dug dih HANa'ree	p. 74
How We Have Lived, Small Incidences
Relativity	p. 79
Ee'see	p. 80
Who Did What?	p. 81
Adolphus Martin	p. 84
Love Power	p. 85
Stanley Buck	p. 86
Tongue Not in Cheek	p. 88
Emerson Waterman	p. 89
Allen Jack	p. 90
Ducky Anderson	p. 91
Two Suns?	p. 92
Big Dog	p. 94
O. J.	p. 95
Abraham geh he(t) (Abraham Dead and Gone)	p. 96
Giveaway	p. 98
Duke	p. 101
Propriety and Derangement
Don't Hunt Too Early	p. 109
Juuh ne(t) raath	p. 116
OO naa g'yeh	p. 122
One Time This Happened	p. 140
The Fire Monkey	p. 152
Deer	p. 155
The Sturgeon	p. 166
Six Nations, One Humanity
The Great Law of the Great Peace	p. 171
Freeman Sowden	p. 178
Tobacco Burning	p. 183
The False Faces	p. 187
Peach Stones	p. 195
Songs of Power	p. 200
Energy Places	p. 206
The Vision Quest	p. 215
Medicines of the Universe	p. 225
Quantum Physics	p. 230
Plant Medicines	p. 240
Snow Man	p. 250
New Age and Ancient Wisdom
The Odds	p. 255
Isolated Phenomena	p. 260
The Little Lights	p. 264
Seeing Things	p. 272
Elemental Communication	p. 286
Another Elemental Communication	p. 292
War and Peace	p. 294
A Sequence of Events	p. 301
Ceremony	p. 311
Closing
Poetry	p. 325
The Thanksgiving Address	p. 333
Afterword	p. 342
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