By H. G. Barnett
ISBN-10: 080930595X
ISBN-13: 9780809305957
An intensive anthropological research of a unique spiritual cult of the Indian tribes of the Pacific Northwest. The publication lines the Shaker cult’s improvement, its ceremonies, ritual parts, faiths, and doctrine.
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A brother by the name of Sylvester Yucton was moved to stand by this altar and received by hand clasp all persons seeking healing of their body, or if they desire the power of the word of God. ], a man by the name of Mud Bay Louie, succeeded him as the leader of the Shaker faith. Then the brethren of the faith began to be persecuted, and leaders were put in chain and ball and in prison; and through it all they remained faithful to their call- 44 INDIAN SHAKERS ing. They prayed and sang in the prisons, and predicted that they would be delivered from the snare of the prison walls; which was accomplished in spite of the determination of their persecutors to hold them there.
Then when John "died," and when he again was near death, his father was convinced that this was the work of a shaman acting at the behest and under the pay of the Thompson family. In particular, he suspected Doctor Jim and Sylvester YuctQn's father, both of whom were shamans, and both re- In the Beginning 33 lated to the Thompsons. " Slocum's father was confirmed in his suspicions when it was apparent that Mary intended to do nothing for her husband except pray, in which nonsense he had no faith .
The newspapers of the day took no notice of John Slocum's death and resurrection, although it In the Beginning 35 is known from other sources that it created considerable excitement and talk among the citizens of Olympia at the time. The principal published record of Slocum's experience was made by James Wickersham, legal counsel and public defender of the Shakers, ten years after it took place. He obtained the statement from Slocum himself, through an interpreter, in 'a form which purports to be his own words.
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