The Sacred Hoop: Recovering the Feminine in American Indian Traditions

Seeker of Visions: The Life of a Sioux Medicine Man (New
York: Simon and Schuster, 1972), pp. 148–149.
12. Lois Paul, “Work and Sex in a Guatemalan Village,” in
Rosaldo and Lamphere, Woman, Culture and Society , pp. 293–
298. Paul’s article discusses these concepts in the framework of
a peasant culture, that is, one that exists in a pastoral,
agriculture-centered environment and whose social structure is
based on perceived relationship to the land. This type of culture
occupies a niche that might be thought of as halfway between
industrial urban society and tribal, ritual society.
13. See John Bierhorst, ed., Four Masterworks of American
Indian Literature: Quetzalcoatl/The Ritual of
Concolence/Cuceb/The Night Chant (New York: Farrar, Straus
and Giroux, 1974). Fr. Bernard Haile’s work is included in
Leland C. Wyman, ed., Beautyway: A Navajo Ceremonial,
Bollingen Series, 53 (New York: Pantheon, 1975).
14. As it is accurately put by Jane Fishburne Collier in
“Women in Politics,” in Rosaldo and Lamphere, Woman,
Culture and Society, p. 90.
15. Lame Deer, Lame Deer, Seeker of Visions, p. 150.
16. Joan Bamburger, “The Myths of Matriarchy: Why Men
Rule in Primitive Society,” in Rosaldo and Lamphere, Woman,
Culture and Society, pp. 260–271.