{"product_id":"the-dream-seekers-native-american-visionary-traditions-of-the-great-plains-9780806126432","title":"The Dream Seekers: Native American Visionary Traditions of the Great Plains","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe Dream Seekers: Native American Visionary Traditions of the Great Plains\u003c\/strong\u003e by Irwin, Lee. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9780806126432.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn The Dream Seekers, Lee Irwin demonstrates the central importance of visionary dreams as sources of empowerment and innovation in Plains Indian religion.\nIrwin draws on 350 visionary dreams from published and unpublished sources that span 150 years to describe the shared features of cosmology for twenty-three groups of Plains Indians. This comprehensive work is not a recital but an understandable exploration of the religious world of Plains Indians.\nThe different means of acquiring visions that are described include the spontaneous vision experience common among Plains Indian women and means such as stress, illness, social conflict, and mourning used by both men and women to obtain visions. Irwin describes the various stages of the structured male vision quest as well as the central issues of unsuccessful or abandoned quests, threshold experiences during a vision, and the means by which religious empowerment is attained and transferred.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"University of Oklahoma Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45118081728565,"sku":"ByrdShop_0806126434","price":27.94,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780806126432_67e03fde-9b1f-4d39-b174-959e32fa1549.jpg?v=1779965673","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-dream-seekers-native-american-visionary-traditions-of-the-great-plains-9780806126432","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}