bear medicine songs

it was a world of "pure magic, of beaver ceremonies and eagle dances, of spirits that inhabited springs, trees, rocks, turtles, and crows; a place where people danced all night and sang bear medicine songs, where wolf medicine made a person invulnerable to bullets, dream visions dictated tribal policy, and ghosts were alive in the wind."  it was a place where one could "drift in the mystical cycles of the seasons, living in that random, terrifying, bloody and intensely alive place where nature and divinity become one."

S. C. GWYNNE, THE EMPIRE OF THE SUMMER MOON (ABOUT THE RISE AND FALL OF THE COMANCHE INDIANS)