The Mountain Chant, a Navajo Ceremony

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The book by Washington Matthews, a surgeon in the United States Army, ethnographer, and linguist known for his studies of Native American peoples, especially the Navajo. The Navajo are the second largest Native American tribe of Northern America, who practice spiritual restoring health, balance, and harmony to a person's life. Washington Matthews’s work in devoted to a Navajo shamanistic healing ceremony that unites dance, song, prayer, sand-painting, drama, sculpture, conjuring, and even a bit

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of farce. It was based on a cycle of myths about a Navajo culture hero, Dsilyídje Qaçàl, which travels to the land of the gods and goddesses to learn powerful magic.

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