Culture

August 6, 2025, 3:34 PM

From page 14: “No matter what methodology the researcher uses, the transmission of ideas from one culture to another is always limited by his or her language. There is an element of fiction when a foreign culture is translated into an English narrative.”

August 5, 2025, 3:33 PM

From Page 5:

“Many multi-disciplinary works also FAIL to engage the Native American worldview (ie: how Native Americans understand their own culture). Authors REDUCE their subjects to familiar and comfortable categories rather than venture into realms that QUESTION common beliefs about reality.”

(see endnote #5, page 349: Bert Kaplan and Dale Johnson, 1964, Navaho Psychopathy in Magic, Faith, and Healing: Studies in Primitive Psychiatry Today, ed. Ari Kiev, M.D., (New York: Macmillan) pages 203-229.

August 3, 2025, 7:58 PM

From page 08:

"Books by self-appointed New Age 'experts' frequently contain the same indiscriminate mixing of cultures: many wells dug but none deep enough to strike water.

""New Age books about Native American healing are frequently written by people who seem entranced by the exotic. They have learned to talk the talk, but they don't walk the walk."

FROM PAGE 86:

"A person who has a close spiritual affinity with the WOLF or orca has the power to telepathically contact people who are very far away, even in other continents."

"The WOLF carries a person's thoughts through the forest, becomes an orca in the sea, and then transform one into the other; they are in Jay Miller's words, 'dual aspects of the same supernatural being." (See endnote #20, page 357: Miller, Tsimshian Culture, page 174).

July 21, 2025, 10:16 PM

From page 84:

"In hunting cultures, the ability to see clearly, and perhaps to see beyond the physical reality, was essential for survival."