The Sacred Hoop: Recovering the Feminine in American Indian Traditions

Oral tradition
Trobriand Islands, 248
Tubman, Harriet, 214
Turkey-Buzzard Spirit, 29
Turner, Frederick III, 56, 59
Turtle Island (New World), 15, 195
Twins, 20, 226, 227. See also Little War Twins; Sacred Twins;
Uretsete and Naotsete
Tyler, Hamilton, 197
Umane (power), 72
Underhill, Ruth, 116
Unemployment, 42, 189
Universe, the: perception of (Indian vs. Western), 55, 57, 59–61,
75, 80, 165–66, 244; Six Powers of, 112; woman as center of,
22
University of California (Berkeley), 204
University of New Mexico, 1, 154
Urbanization, 31, 96, 192
Uretsete and Naotsete, 13, 16, 19, 28, 98–99, 122; as prototypes
for hotchin and cacique, 20 (see also Cacique; Hotchin);
Uretsete equated with Iyatiku, 20, 99 (see also Corn or Earth
Woman). See also Twins
U.S. government, see Government, American; Government
policy
Utset (Supernatural Woman), 25, 41
Values, 29, 192, 210. See also Cultural bias; Sacred ritual;
Tradition
Vietnam War, 21
Villon, François, 214
Violence: alienation and, 128, 138–39; child abuse, see
Children; distaste for, 18, 88, 238; and murder penalty, 32;