The Sacred Hoop: Recovering the Feminine in American Indian Traditions

Ritual, see Sacred ritual
Roles, see Gender roles
Rolfe, John, 282n7
“Romantic Fallacy,” 129
“Rope baby,” 258. See also Childbirth
Rose, Wendy, 157, 175, 177, 264
Ross, John, 37
Rowlandson, Mary, 35
Ruoff, A. LaVonne, 77
Sacagawea (or Sacajawea; feminist heroine), 215, 220, 263
Sachem, see Chief
Sac Indians, 197, 198, 199
Sacred: meaning of term, 28, 72
Sacred Arrows (religion of), 107, 115
Sacred clowns, 98. See also Trickster tales
Sacred hoop (as concept), 56, 111, 115, 187
Sacred Hoop of Be-ing, 11. See also Spider Old
Woman/Thought Woman
Sacred Ones, 107
Sacred Pipe (and way or Path of the), 111; White Buffalo Cow
Woman as bringer of, 16–17, 22, 27, 45, 80, 105, 205,
274n10
Sacred ritual: centers of, 80; death ritual, 86; defined, 29, 79–
80; different ways of referring to, 69; dream connections in,
22 (see also Dream[s]); dual relationship within, 19–20;
feminine power in, see Feminine power; importance of, 94,
101; myth connected with, 106–7; neglect of, 17–18;
prohibition of (by colonizers), 195–96 (see also
Colonization); secrecy in, 15, 74–75, 259; similarity of, to
other cultures, 5; taboos in, see Taboos; warfare as, 21,
271n17. See also Ceremony; Oral tradition; Shamans and
shamanism; Tradition