Native Spirituality

• Red Elk forums 

• An article about the sacred pipe from Spirit Path Magazine

Sweat Lodges & Pipe Ceremonies:  
The links below are presented purely for informational purposes only! NONE of information presented in any of these links has been verified for authenticity, accuracy, safety, etc!!

• "A Sweat Lodge", by "Rob", after the Yakia tradition.  Describes how to build a sweat lodge and the experience.    The same story is also here: Journey into a Native American Sweat Lodge

• Sweat Lodge Suggestions - one person's view on sweat lodge etiquette

• Origin of the Sweat Lodge - from the Piegan tribe

• The Sweatlodge Ceremony - another account of building a lodge and the experience of the ceremony.

• Sweat Lodge (Inipi) - brief page about the "Inipi", by Jannie, of the Cherokee nation

• Moon Sprirt Gallery

• Historic Sweat Lodge - a photo and diagram of a large sweat lodge from the early 1900's (S. California)

• What Sweat Lodge and Pipe Ceremony Mean to Me - a poem written by Diane DancingFirefly

• Native American Sweat Lodge Ceremony - useful pointers about sweatlodge etiquette from the Earth Circle Association

• Sweat Lodge Teaching - from a book So You Should Know (Chi Ki Ken Da Mun) on the origin of the sweatlodge

• Accreditation & Certification for Native American Healing Ceremonies  - from the Indigenous Traditional Healing Council  [Give me a break - there's a certification for everything these days!]

• Inipi - from the Lakota Teaching Project Home Page - a brief overview

• Sweat Lodge & Pipe Prayer Ceremonies - an overview from the Sunrise Retreat Center of Arizona

• Centering the Energy in a Sweat Lodge - a personal overview

• About The Sweat Lodge and Its Use - a fairly scholarly discourse about the Creek tradition

• Prophecy Keepers