Need help on Native America Spirits

[SilentWolf]

Does anyone know a good book or website that has descriptions of Native American Spirits/Gods & Goddesses?

I'm especially looking for information about one called Misink.

[TheTheologin]

here's some that I know of:

http://nikki.sitenation.com/namerican/southgods.html

http://www.jaxpagan.com/magick/pgnative.html

[mato]

what for? if you dont mind...

[Myst]

Just to be clear, there won't be any bashing of people who follow NA beliefs here. :)

[mato]

Originally posted by Myst
Just to be clear, there won't be any bashing of people who follow NA beliefs here. :)

Ya I was just asking.
(insert some smart ass coment about the incident on mm):lol:

[seawitch]

patricia monaghan's book, goddesses and heroines
i love it she even managed to find alaska native goddesses and inuit and eskimo.
lovely sedna goddess of all sea life:loveduv:

[Myst]

What is Misink from?

Mohawk, Sioux, Anasazi, etc.?

[SilentWolf]

Thanks for the help guys. I was looking for this information because since I'm part Iriquois, my friend suggested I should think about learning Shamanism. I haven't decided if I'm going to or not, but I want to find out more about NA deities. I was introduced to a few of them but not many.

Misink is a Lenne Lenape deity. I was given a necklace with him on it and I want to find out more about him.

Thanks for the links too. :)

[Garnet]

Cool! I dated a Cherokee in high school. Unfortunately, he'd been adopted by white people who didn't tell him anything about his heritage except that he was NA, better off "white" & (insert typical anti-NA b.s. here).
I started to read all the NA lit I could find. I started handing him books & telling him "You'd know this if you didn't buy into that
'the only good Indian...' b.s."
Needless to say, that relationship fizzled fast, but both he & I learned a lot of neat & powerful stuff.
For example...the Iroquois was not a tribe, but a political confederation of five tribes (Cayuga, Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, & Seneca). The Iroquois League was formed to protect member tribes from hostile tribes, but mostly from white "colonists".
I recall reading somewhere that the U.S Constitution was based on the constition of the Iroquois League.
If you ever really "get into" NA hisory & politics, I suggest anything written by Vine Deloria Jr. who wrote about how badly the U.S. has teated its' native peoples.
For pure entertainment, try the music of Robert Mirabel, a member of the Taos Pueblo. His "Music from a Painted Cave" show is often run during fundraising season on PBS. Great stuff!

[Myst]

Yup. I'm part Mohawk.

[Old Witch]

And I'm Cherokee!

[nehelia]

ive always found Grandmother Spider to be a good general source of N.A. information. . . as well as lovely spiders and kick ass tea.

[Danustouch]

Mohawk, Too. :) My mothers, mothers' mother, was 3/4.

I'm pretty sure that makes me...ugh...never mind. I'm not sure WHAT that makes me.

[manstranger]

My mom and I are Native American. I'm 1/2 Nanticoke. I'm pretty sure that the Lenne Lenape where from NJ. I'll go look for some of my mom's books and tell you the authors ... they might not be a big fact book about the NA Deities (sp?), but they should have some spirituality in them.

Ehh, I only found two, Mary Summer Rain and "Beacon". Sorry, hope they help though.