The Sacred Hoop: Recovering the Feminine in American Indian Traditions

(“rope baby”), 258; and women as vitalizers, 27–28, 87, 98
(see also Creation)
Childbirth Water Woman, 14
Children: education of, see Education; “legitimacy” of, 49–50,
238; literature for, 74; neglect or abuse of, 50, 191, 192, 216–
17 (see also Violence); punishment of, 3, 39–41, 216;
repetition as used by, 66, 67, 68; special destinies of, 254;
training of (within tribe), 206–7
Chilula Indians, 197
Choctaw Indians, 197
Christianity, 4, 50, 220, 250; Catholic Church, 3, 40, 45, 49,
172–78 passim (see also Guadalupe, Our Lady of/LaVirgin
de); conflict of, with tribal beliefs/myth, 87, 96, 97, 106, 195,
198, 199, 216; and creation tradition, 15, 56, 57; effect of, on
social system, 32, 37, 38–40, 224, 225, 251, 268; female
prototype in, 43–44; missionaries of, 3, 33, 38–41, 49, 215,
247; and Protestant Reformation, 218; Quakers, 3, 35; and
salvation, 59; women devalued under, 33, 41, 195, 202, 256,
259 (see also Western/non-Indian thought). See also Judeo-
Christian tradition
Chumash Indians, 198
Cihuacoatl (Aztec deity), 20, 263
Clowns, see Trickster tales
Cochiti Indians, 16
Cocopah Indians, 196
Cogewea, the Half Blood (Mourning Dove), 81, 83–84, 151
Coleville Indians, 81
“Collective unconscious,” 71. See also Consciousness
Colonization, 2, 11, 50, 194; and chronological time, 151; and
government, 218; and homosexuality, 195, 196, 197, 199–200,
203; justification of, 36; as literary theme, 78, 79, 84–90
passim, 128, 132–33, 138; and loss of identity, 90, 192, 210;
and rejection of tradition, 210; ritual prohibited under, 195–