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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A period of spiritual seeking among certain Native American peoples, often undertaken as a puberty rite, that typically involves isolation, fasting, and the inducement of a trance state for the purpose of attaining guidance or knowledge from supernatural forces.
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- noun A
rite of passage in someNative American cultures , representing a turning-point in life beforepuberty and consisting of a journey alone in thewilderness , sometimes accompanied byfasting , leading to avision from aspirit .
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Merriam-Webster Dictionary:
noun
Date: 1922
: a solitary vigil by an adolescent Native American boy to seek spiritual power and learn through a vision the identity of his usually animal or bird guardian spirit
February 23, 2008