THE PEOPLE ARE DANCING AGAIN: THE SILETZ TRIBE OF WESTERN OREGON by Charles Wilkinson

THE PEOPLE ARE DANCING AGAIN: THE SILETZ TRIBE OF WESTERN OREGON by Charles Wilkinson

A history book dedicated to the Siletz ancestors. It discusses not just their history but how the cultural revival of Native Americans is an inherently spiritual process involving the reproduction of every area of life.

There is the cultural revival of the Siletz traditional practices and rituals, as the author explains, "…like their traditional dance, nay-dosh, which is done in a traditional cedar dance house that seats a couple of hundred people, and the dancers dance around an open fire. And it goes on for several nights in traditional times, from dusk until dawn - all night. And they do nay-dosh today, and… It’s an amazing spectacle. It’s the feeling we have when we see real art – in this case, dance – but also, the spirituality is just overwhelming."

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University of Washington Press

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