"he hid the crystal in the woods and then gave a feast. After the guests had left he lay down and ... he became aware that he was asleep. A man came to him, ... and said, "... you have received your treasure, the quartz crystal from me." Upon awakening ... the unknown man ... became his guardian spirit and trained him as a shaman."

{this is somewhat similar to California Indian dreams about pebbles located at particular places later sought out by the dreamer in order to gain powers to attract game-animals in hunting}

p.

dream

95

[Kwakiutl dream] " "... traveling canoe. Then I stopped paddling. In my dream we were drifting about on the water. Then it became night and I went to sleep." When he awoke [in the dream] it was still foggy ... . "Then it cleared up and I awoke."" {Fog is a variant on the darkness so frequent in shamanic dreams.}

On the 3^rd level you learn and see unusual things, not of this world. The hills and terrain are different. ... Once before I knew how to dream and think simultaneously, I was dreaming on the 3^rd level and wondering how I was going to return. Suddenly a giant bird

96

appeared, like a pelican; it came along and I grabbed its neck. We flew up in the sky, I saw the earth burning below {this would be a witnessing of the world-fire common to California Indian mythologies} and I sort of came out of it into the 2^nd level of dream. It’s really hard to come out of ... higher levels."

"Among the Dunne-za or Beaver Indians of British Columbia and Alberta, ... dreamers ..., both male and female, ... are able to leave their bodies and fly like swans along a trail of songs into the sky, to visit the deceased and return with new knowledge and songs to their bodies here on earth.

At Hopi and Zuni pueblos there are a number of powerful medicine women who act with volition in their dreams to seek herbal and spiritual remedies."

p. 96

[Blackfeet] "he entered into his previous night’s dream and saw ... where he had slept, his own dead body, and the spirits of many other dead people sitting in grave boxes. ... Now the dead danced around, and "I saw my own dead body. ... Then one of the dead took the baby and swung it around three times, then threw it at my body. My body dodged. Each of the dead tried to hit

{this is more similar to experiences by souls of the dead (who may see their own corpse), than it is to astral projection (wherein one may witness one’s one living body living asleep)}

p. 97

my body with the baby, but none succeeded."

pp. 106-8

[Dena>ina of the Cook Inlet in Alaska] hunter was instructed during dream by great big mouse-woman (p. 108) not to discard animal-bones "where the people walk on them" (p. 107)

p.

myth

111

[Arikara myth of abduction of woman by bear-man] in his dream, young man was told by "the spirit of the elk" to use "an elk whistle, one that imitates the sound of an elk."

113

[Mandan myth of origin of the "buffalo dance" ritual] young man, asleep on a hilltop, saw in his "dream" 12 "buffalo dancers"

116

[Yana myth of Rolling Skull] Wildcat-man as husband, while climbing among the branches of a pine-nut tree to pick pinecones for his wife, remembered his dream : "I dreamed during the night ... about tearing myself down into pieces. I threw down my shoulder, I threw down my other shoulder, I threw down my thigh, I threw down my other thigh. ... I dreamed about throwing down my backbone. I dreamed that I ran all over as nothing but my skull. ..."

p.

myth

112

[earlier episode in Mandan myth of origin of the "buffalo dance" ritual] too-long-unmarried Corn-Silk Woman feigned being asleep while being carried off to dream-lodge of Owl Woman : "Corn Silk leaves this dream lodge and slowly finds her way back on her own, acquiring various power from animal spirits along the way."

113

[Kwakiutl] Day Hunter was hunting in "a cave used by harbor seals, ... and the only way a hunter can get inside is through a hole in the ceiling."

114

After being injured in a way that would sound dream-like ("his intestines were scattered over the rocks. But his mind remained steady."),

115

he was healed by Seal Face with the "water-of-life".