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The Mythology of Native North America.(Review) (book reviews)
American Indian Quarterly, The, September, 1998 by SMOAK, GREGORY E.
David Leeming and Jake Page. The Mythology of Native North America. Norman: Univ. of Oklahoma Press, 1998. 209 + xiii pp. Bibliography, index. $22.95 cloth.
Over the last thirty years, both scholarly and popular interest in American Indian spirituality has increased by leaps and bounds. One side effect of this interest has been a growing appropriation of certain aspects of Native American religions by various non-Indian "seekers." Critics of the "New Age" movement, such as Vine Deloria Jr., have charged the movement with well-meaning ignorance at best, and ...
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