The Sacred Hoop: Recovering the Feminine in American Indian Traditions

52, 264
West, the (as symbol): color of, 114; Power or Grandfather of,
110, 111; vision of or from, 109–10
Western/non-Indian thought: on Indians as “savages,” see
“Savages”; on literature and tribal narrative, 54–55, 62, 67–
68, 71–75, 78–85 passim, 109, 180, 235, 237, 241–44; on the
supernatural, 59–60; on time and space, 59, 149, 150–51; on
tribal systems, 4, 7, 250; on the universe, 55, 60; on women,
149, 202, 243–44, 252, 255, 262–68. See also Christianity;
Colonization; Cultural bias; Media, the; White men
White, see Color, significance of
White Buffalo Cow Woman, see Sacred Pipe
White chief, see Cacique
White Corn (sister of Yellow Woman), 227
Whiteman, Roberta Hill, 162
White men: culture of, influenced by Indian culture, 217–18;
government policies of, see Government policy; tribal
dealings with, 20, 236; Sioux view of, 69. See also
Colonization; Western/non-Indian thought
White Roots of Peace, 212. See also Iroquois Indians
White towns, 37
White Village, see Kush Katret
Whitman, Walt, 4
Wilken, Michael, 197
Williams, Roger, 34
Williams, Walter, 198
Williams, William Carlos, 4
Wilson, Dick, 1
Wind from an Enemy Sky (McNickle), 84–85, 151
Winds, see Four Winds (as beings)
Winkte, 258–59. See also Homosexuality (gay males and
lesbians)
Winnebago Indians, 97, 160, 197, 198