Dream Seekers

Volume 123 in the Civilization of the Americas Series



In The Dream Seekers, Lee Irwin examines 350 dreams from 150 years of published and unpublished sources to describe the shared features of cosmology for twenty-three groups of Plains Indians.



"The Dream Seekers adds a new and important dimension to our understanding of Native American cultures and of the central role that religion plays in guaranteeing their continuity."-Ethnohistory



Lee Irwin, Department Chair and Professor of Religious Studies at the College of Charleston, is author of Visionary Worlds: The Making and Unmaking of Reality and the editor of To Hear the Eagle Cry.



Vine Deloria, Jr. was co-editor (with Raymond J. DeMallie) of Documents of Indian Diplomacy, the editor of American Indian Policy in the Twentieth Century, and the author of Custer Died for Your Sins, all published by the University of Oklahoma Press.