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Vodou, Hoodoo & African Diasporic Religions

The Spirit of Black Hawk

A Mystery of Africans and Indians

by Jason Berry

An exploration by a New Orleans journalist of the veneration of the Sauk leader Black Hawk in the city's Spiritual churches. Berry connects the devotion to histories of resistance and to the Black Masking Indians.

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