Indigenous Vision

Steven Charleston's The Four Vision Quests of Jesus focuses on four specific experiences of Jesus as portrayed in the synoptic gospels. It examines each story as a “vision quest,” a universal spiritual phenomenon, but one of particular importance within North American indigenous communities.

In an era in which "resistance" has become tokenized, popular Indigenous author Kaitlin Curtice reclaims it as a basic human calling. Resistance is for every human who longs to see their neighbors' holistic flourishing. We each have a role to play in the world right where we are, and our everyday acts of resistance hold us all together.

NATIONAL BESTSELLER Winner of the 2024 Governor General's Literary Award for Nonfiction Named a Best Book of 2024 by Audible, Spotify, and Winnipeg Free Press One of CBC's Best Canadian Nonfiction of 2024 From ground zero of this country's most important project: reconciliation...

Essential Training in Native American Healing Wisdom A Lakota prophecy tells of a day when Westerners will join Native wisdom-keepers to create a new, integrated vision of healing. Dr. Lewis Mehl-Madrona believes that day has arrived. With The Spirit of Healing, this physician and lifelong...

It's time for a spiritual migration, says Choctaw elder Steven Charleston. Two million years ago, our earliest ancestors undertook the first migration. Now, in a time of upheaval and chaos and dread, we must move again. Around us, things are shutting down. We are moving backward in our evolution...

Explore near-death experiences across indigenous cultures to discover spiritual healing and true afterlife wisdom. If you are navigating the heavy currents of grief, coping with illness, or seeking a contemplative refuge from existential dread, these ancestral narratives offer a transformative...

A Miwok girl hears voice. It is deep sounding as if coming from the mountains. She can't understand what the word is telling her so asks her grandmother. The word means vision quest, but what is the purpose? What is the meaning?

Before the world was changed, it learned to forget. Long before empires crossed oceans, before history was written by conquerors, the people of the river built their lives from earth, water, and memory. They raised mounds to honor their dead. They believed the land would hold what they buried. They were wrong. When a young girl named Sani begins to hear what the river and the earth are trying to say, she becomes a witness to something her people have spent generations refusing to face. What was sealed away beneath ritual and tradition is not gone—it is growing. Hunger, grief, and fear ...

A Historical, Philosophical, and Cultural Exploration of India's Most Inclusive Sacred Tradition Who is Lord Jagannath? Is He a tribal deity, Purushottama Vishnu, a Buddhist symbol, a Jain concept, a Tantric manifestation, or something far greater than any single definition? Drawing upon years of dedicated research, Lord Jagannath and the Dynamics of Sacred Synthesis explores one of the most fascinating religious traditions in human history. This book reveals how the Jagannath tradition evolved through the interaction of tribal beliefs, Vedic religion, Vaishnavism, Shaivism, Shaktism, ...