The Sacred Hoop: Recovering the Feminine in American Indian Traditions

Darwinian theory, 68
Death of Jim Loney, The (Welch), 82, 91, 93–94, 141, 142–43,
145, 152
Death ritual, death song, 86, 267. See also Sacred ritual; Songs
Decision-making, see Feminine power
Deity: as generic concept, 41 (see also Great Spirit); Woman as,
see Woman
Democracy: American concept of, 218, 219; by coercion, 41
Diego, Juan, 26, 45
Direction: orientation to, 110. See also West, the (as symbol)
Divorce, see Marriage
Dream(s), 22, 204–5, 258; gender designation based on, 196–
97; vision equated with, 91, 92, 93, 100, 205, 264, 266 (see
also Vision[s])
Dream Dances of the Kashia Pomo (film), 204
Dreamer, the (goddess), 98, 204–5, 264, 266, 268. See also
Spider Old Woman/Thought Woman
Drum, use of, see Ceremony
Dumarest, Fr. Noel, 16
Dye, Eva Emery, 215, 220
Eagle Wing Stretches (visionary figure), 111, 112
Earth: as being, 119; femaleness of, 19, 122; -island (“Turtle
Island”), 15, 195
Earth Woman, see Corn or Earth Woman
Education: enforced, 39, 40, 192, 195; lack of, 42; and
miseducation, 216 (see also Cultural bias); oral tradition and,
15, 206–7
Egalitarianism, 211, 218, 240–41; contemporary, 33, 217, 220,
223; gynecentric, 33, 40, 195, 223, 266; literature reflecting,
59
Einsteinian energy, 60
Eisenhower administration, 31