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Published on: 11/10/2006
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"Foreword to Indian Spirit" by James Trosper appears in Indian Spirit: Revised and Enlarged edited by Judith and Michael Oren Fitzgerald, published by World Wisdom.
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- James Trosper
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The following six videos feature James Trosper, Medicine Man and Sun Dance chief of the Shoshone tribe in Fort Washakie, Wyoming.
- This first video clip of James Trosper concerns a central aspect of traditional Indian life: its focus on spiritual things (Watch this video clip).
- In this second video clip, James Trosper discusses the significance of the buffalo in Native American life and ceremonies, especially in the Sun Dance (Watch this video clip).
- James Trosper's third video clip is on the significance and sacredness of the eagle in Indian life, and in particular in the Sun Dance (Watch this video clip).
- The fourth video clip of Shoshone Sun Dance chief James Trosper is on some of the challenges to their survival that American Indians have faced (Watch this video clip).
- The fifth video clip of Mr. Trosper concerns the importance of maintaining spiritual practices beyond the Sun Dance itself (Watch this video clip).
- In the sixth video clip of James Trosper, he explains how old stories have traditionally been used to instill important values in Indian life (Watch this video clip).
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Native Spirit: The Sun Dance Way includes rare interviews with such American Indian elders as John Arlee, Janine Pease, Joe Medicine Crow, James Trosper, Arvol Looking Horse, and Ines Talamantez. (More)
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James Trosper is a Sun Dance chief of the Shoshone tribe on the Wind River Indian Reservation in Wyoming.He is from a long line of Shoshone Sun Dance chiefs that includes John Trehero, the Sun Dance chief who brought the Shoshone Sun Dance to the Crow tribe, and is a direct descendent of Chief Washakie, who is the most important chief of the Shoshone tribe in history. (More)
Trosper wrote the foreword to Indian Spirit: Revised and Enlarged edited by Michael Oren Fitzgerald and Judith Fitzgerald.
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Video Clips of James Trosper can be seen in the Video Clips section on this page.