The Midewiwin Lodge is a traditional medicine society inspired by the oral traditions and prophesies of the Ojibwa ( Chippewa ) and related tribes.

The Midewiwin ( also spelled Midewin and Medewiwin ) is the Grand Medicine Society of the indigenous groups of the Maritimes, New England and Great Lakes regions in North America.

Like the Midewiwin, the Waabanowin is a secretive animistic religion, requiring an initiation.

The Midewiwin Society is well respected as the keeper of detailed and complex scrolls of events, history, songs, maps, memories, stories, geometry, and mathematics.

The Ojibway aboriginal people in North America use cowry shells which are called sacred Miigis Shells or whiteshells in Midewiwin ceremonies, and the Whiteshell Provincial Park in Manitoba, Canada is named after this type of shell.

In Midewiwin, the medicine bag is used to store items of fetishism.

Nanabozho is considered to be the founder of Midewiwin.

Its practitioners are called Midew and the practices of Midewiwin referred to as the Mide.

Traditionally, the Algonquins were practitioners of Midewiwin ( the right path ).

The Mississaugas called for the core Anishinaabe to Midewiwin ( return to the path of the good life ).

The place is inhabited by several hundred warlike women who are anachronisms of the Twentieth Century -- stone age amazons who live in an all-female, matriarchal society which is self-sufficient ''.

Recognizing that the Rule of Law is `` a dynamic concept which should be employed not only to safeguard the civil and political rights of the individual in a free society '', the Congress asserted that it also included the responsibility `` to establish social, economic, educational and cultural conditions under which his legitimate aspirations and dignity may be realized ''.

Poetry in Persian life is far more than a common ground on which -- in a society deeply fissured by antagonisms -- all may stand.

There is a New South emerging, a South losing the folksy traditions of an agrarian society with the rapidity of an avalanche -- especially within recent decades.

The book concerned with the Negro's role in an urban society is rare indeed ; ;

For the beatnik, like the hipster, is in opposition to a society that is based on the repression of the sex instinct.

The beatnik, seceding from a society that is fatally afflicted with a deathward drive, is concerned with his personal salvation in the living present.

Their rebellion against authoritarian society is not far removed from the violence of revolt characteristic of the juvenile delinquent.

He is, first and foremost, a defender of public morals, a servant of society.

At the same time, because the personal code of the detective coincides with the legal dictates of his society, because he likes to catch criminals, he is in middle class eyes a virtuous man.

In a society where everything is for sale, Marlowe is the only man who cannot be bought.

By upholding his own personal code of behavior, the private detective has placed himself in opposition to a society whose fabric is permeated with crime and corruption.

In any event, whether society may have cancer, or merely a virus infection, the `` disease '', we shall find, is political, economical, social, and even medical.

Hence the prime issue, as I see it, is whether a democratic or free society can master technology for the benefit of mankind, or whether technology will rule and develop its own society compatible with its own needs as a force of nature.

Leadership is lacking in our society because it has no legitimate place to develop.

Rather it is a division established by two absolutely different ways of thought with regard to man's life in society.

Its ontological status is itself most tenuous because apart from individual men, who are its `` matter '', tradition, the `` form '' of society exists only as a shared perception of truth.

The ontological status of society thus is constituted by the psychological status of society's members.

It may be that in this comment he has broken from the conventional pattern more violently than in any other regard, for the treatment in his books is far removed from even the genial irony of Ellen Glasgow, who was the only important novelist before him to challenge the conventional picture of planter society.

He is a dreamer of the good society with a plan to put into effect, and he is an individual craftsman with something to make for himself and the people of his time.

As this report points out, and the existing academic literature on transnational policing seems to confirm, this is a secretive area and one not open to civil society involvement.

After he started to focus more on his art and less on athletics, he took courses in art that led to him being a lead cartoonist and art editor for the Eucleian Society's ( a secretive student society at NYU ) monthly journal, The Medley.

Bennett founded a secretive Strangite fraternal society known as the Order of Illuminati, but his presence disrupted Strang's church and ultimately led to his excommunication.

The Sphinx originally published the names of its members in the annual Aegis, but the society has become more secretive in recent years.

Rather than representing an alien and corrupting force that destroys its practitioners, or a complex, secretive body of folklore that isolates magicians from normal society via long study and seclusion, magic typically takes the form of innate abilities that are natural and simple to use, sometimes described as psychic talents like empathy or precognition, sometimes oriented towards affinity for or control of a particular natural element ( such as the four classical Greek elements, fire, air, earth and water ).

An indistinct image emerges of doublers ' Orwellian information-controlled civilization that is almost self regulating, with a special kind of system of government created with the use of a fictitious science Lem dubs Procrustics: a dictatorship that denies its own existence and is thus impossible to destroy, a discipline of molding groups within a society and ultimately a society as a whole to behave as designed by secretive hidden rulers, in order to create a hideous form of social control in which the very existence of the governing powers is denied and each individual appears to themselves to be free yet is being manipulated and controlled ( achieved, for one thing, through a controlled dissemination of different information to different social strata-as revealed by the astronomer doubler ).

Following her investigations, she begins to connect the facts with an ancient group, known as the Anti-Hippocratic Society – a secretive society of medical investigators that is not ethically-restrained.

Kane is a fictional character in the alternate history universe of Westwood Studios ' and Electronic Arts ' Command & Conquer real-time strategy video games in which he is a seemingly immortal mastermind behind the ancient and secretive Brotherhood of Nod society.

Many mercantile guilds have their headquarters in Marienburg, most important of all the secretive High Order of Honorable Freetraders which represents the elite amongst mercantile society.

Coutts is known as a bank for the rich and famous of British society and is highly secretive about its client list.

With some improvements made on such as animistic form of religion, the new Shinkyo belief subsequently emerged in the primeval society.