Native Americans

• A Native American Worldview by Paula Underwood. "Hawk and Eagle: Both are Singing" - A Comparison Between Western and Indigenous Science - in which the author attempts to share the relevance of her shamanic training to Western science.
• Native American mythology (Wikipedia)
• Paula Gunn Allen (Wikipedia) - Native American anthropologist who studies Native American religions)

 

The arch of sky and mightiness of storms

Have moved the spirit within me,

Till I am carried away

Trembling with joy.

Uvavnuk, Inuit shaman woman

 

What is life? it is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.

Crowfoot (1821-1890) Blackfoot Indigenous American

 

The great sea

Has sent me adrift

It moves me

As the weed in a great river

Earth and the great weather

Move me

Have carried me away

And move my inward parts with joy.

Uvavnuk, Inuit shaman woman