Navajo

Recent posts on Native American cultures—relevant to ritual and China—include

• Bruno Nettl with an introduction to themes in music, history, and change
• Ceremonies of the Navajo, based on McAllester’s classic Enemy way music
• The Ghost Dance of 1890—citing Bury my heart at Wounded Knee, and the 1900 Boxer uprising, including Buffalo Bill’s “Rescue at Pekin”
• Sun dance rituals.

This led me to Tony Hillerman’s fictional treatments of the Navajo:

• Leaphorn and Chee

My interest was initially prompted by the tragic story of

• Grassy Narrows: emerging from trauma.

See also

• First Nations: trauma and soundscape
• An Indigenous peoples’ history of the United States
• under The reinvention of humanity, and
• Squaw.

On a lighter yet trenchant note, see

• A fine riposte.