Big Medicine From Six Nations

Informationen zum Autor The son of a Turtle Clan sachem chief and respected medicine man, Ted Williams grew up on the Tuscarora Indian Reservation near Niagara Falls, New York, in the 1930s and l940s. He is the author of The Reservation . Klappentext Presents a series of reminiscences and essays by the late Ted Williams, on the themes of ""Medicine"" (physical/spiritual/psychic healing). Williams intertwines the lore and lifeways of his Tuscarora upbringing, illustrating the dynamic encounter of tradition and innovation at the heart of contemporary Haudenosaunee culture. At the same time, he writes with an irreverence, irony, and humour all his own.

Product details

• Authors: Ted C Williams, Ted C. Williams, Ted C./ Roberts Williams
• Assisted by: Debra Roberts (Editor)
• Publisher: Syracuse University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.07.2017
• EAN: 9780815610946
• ISBN: 978-0-8156-1094-6
• No. of pages: 368
• Series: Iroquois and Their Neighbors; The Iroquois and Their Neighbors
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Cultural history; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous