The Dream Seekers: Native American Visionary Traditions of the Great Plains.(Review) (book reviews)

Lee Irwin. The Dream Seekers: Native American Visionary Traditions of the Great Plains. Norman: Univ. of Oklahoma Press, 1994. 306 + xii pp. Appendices, notes, index. Cloth, $26.95; paper, $14.95.

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 ...

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