{"id":4111,"date":"2012-04-20T08:08:39","date_gmt":"2012-04-20T14:08:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=4111"},"modified":"2012-04-20T12:41:17","modified_gmt":"2012-04-20T18:41:17","slug":"hanging-the-salem-witches-was-a-good-idea-said-the-zunis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=4111","title":{"rendered":"Hanging the Salem Witches was a Good Idea, said the Zu\u00f1is."},"content":{"rendered":"

From Philip Jenkins’ Dream Catchers: How Mainstream America Discovered Native Spirituality<\/a>, <\/em>which I am reading as part of some research on changing attitudes towards shamanism:<\/p>\n

In 1882 when a group of Zu\u00f1i<\/a> emissaries visited Salem [Mass.] . . . they congratulated the citizens for their ancestors’ determined response to the witchcraft problem. Through the 1890s, U.S. authorities were struggling to suppress Zu\u00f1i persecution of witches in conflicts that nearly led to war. (31)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Which reminded me of one of my all-time favorite articles, Malcolm Brenner’s “A Witch among the Navajo<\/a>,” or what happens when Pagan Witchcraft meets witch-as-translation-for-our-word-for-evil-magic-worker.<\/p>\n

At the time of writing it, Malcolm was a newspaper reporter in Gallup, New Mexico, and the Zu\u00f1i tribal government<\/a> was part of his beat. Previously he had lived on the Navajo reservation to the north, during which the events he described took place. His website.<\/a><\/p>\n

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From Philip Jenkins’ Dream Catchers: How Mainstream America Discovered Native Spirituality, which I am reading as part of some research on changing attitudes towards shamanism: In 1882 when a group of Zu\u00f1i emissaries visited Salem [Mass.] . . . they congratulated the citizens for their ancestors’ determined response to the witchcraft problem. 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