Yuwipi is a traditional Lakota healing ceremony. During the ceremony the healer is tied up with a special blanket and ropes, and the healer and their supporters pray and sing for the healing of the person who has asked for the ceremony.

2018年1月20日 · The origin, history, and classification of the Lakota Yuwipi tradition continue to challenge Western religious and scientific frameworks and epistemologies. In this article, I reexamine this particular ritual tradition from a postcolonial perspective that is sensitive to and cooperative with contemporary Lakota self-representation(s).

2009年2月26日 · The yuwipi man is the sole healer of Indian sickness. During the ceremony, a helper holds the sacred pipe, and people around the perimeter of the room also pray for the healing. While the spirits are present, people other than the patient may also make their requests known to the spirits, addressed as tunkašila , grandfather, through the ...

The Yuwipi ceremony originated with Woptura, the Oglala Lakota. There energy condenses in such a way that the spirits can manifest in physical form. In this ritual, all those present are touched by the spirits and experience healing. Yuwipi is Lakota and means “they bind him”.

2011年7月9日 · Instead, I include the vital religious practice known as Yuwipi, which became popular in the twentieth century. It encompasses a number of cultural concepts related to traditional life and problems confronting contemporary Lakota peoples.

The Yuwipi healing ceremony is one of the principal ceremonies of the Lakota Sioux people, along with the inipi (sweat lodge) and hanbalecha (vision quest). This particular ceremony was a gift from spirit to the Chipps family generations ago and is practiced by family members to this day, passed along from father to son.

out the Sioux country, Yuwipi devo tees continue to believe in the power of the Yuwipi men. The most popular of the traditional cults on the Pine Ridge and Rosebud reserva tions is the Yuwipi cult, originally named for the practice of tying and wrapping the shaman. Although Yuwipi translates as "they wrap him up", the spirits "used"

specifically, a consideration of the theory and practice of yuwipi, a modern Oglala shamanistic healing ritual, should illustrate the possibilities of this approach and also illuminate the acculturational experiences of residents of Pine Ridge.

A profoundly spiritual book, Yuwipi describes a present-day Oglala Sioux healing ritual that is performed for a wide range of personal crises. The vivid narrative centers on the experience of a hypothetical father and son in need of spiritual and physical assistance.

The Yuwipi ceremony is used for healing, divining, and for finding lost persons or objects. A medicine man who performs this nighttime ritual builds a special altar on the floor of a house and allows the spectators to tie his hands securely behind his back, then wrap him head to foot in a thick blanket so that he is entirely covered like a mummy.