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JamieLynnB
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Hello. I’m trying to locate a tarot deck that I remember seeing. Native American deck, not Angels or Ancestors, but maybe close to that name. Not the Native Tarot Deck by Gonzalez. Thanks. 

RunningWild
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There’s also the Santa Fe Tarot.

katrinka
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There's several decks called the Native American Tarot. This one has been around since the 80's. It's a nice enough deck. I might still have my copy around here somewhere. But I stopped using it years ago because it has the same issues that ALL of these things have. 

Longish article, but well worth the time it takes to read it here.

Tarot is just a really bad fit for Native American culture. It's a completely different perspective. And Natives have already been exploited to a surreal degree. Plus there's the fact that most of these decks were done by pretendians and plastic shamans. 

The Lakota Sweat Lodge Cards that FCP mentioned would probably be the best option. For one, it's not force-fitted into a Tarot structure. For another, Archie Fire Lame Deer actually WAS a Lakota and a practicing Wicasa Wakan. But you could learn more from his book with Richard Erdoes, Gift of Power: the life and teachings of a Lakota medicine man than you could from that deck. And many Lakotas find it objectionable that he packaged these concepts and sold them to white people. If you think about it, they do have a point.

I decided long ago to leave Native-themed cartomancy strictly alone. You'll do what you want to do, of course. But as for me, I'm not going to sit here on stolen land adding insult to injury.

Edited by katrinka
gregory
Posted

The OP is trying to find one specific deck, not looking for an option as such....

Posted

Ddin't Lo Scarabeo have one?

katrinka
Posted
6 hours ago, gregory said:

The OP is trying to find one specific deck, not looking for an option as such....


My bad. 
They're all sketchy, though.

katrinka
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1 hour ago, Sar said:

Ddin't Lo Scarabeo have one?


Lol. I'm sure they had at least one. I'm guessing it had lots of women with stupendous boobs and men in the tiniest loincloths. You know LS.

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