Editing Spirit guide (section)

== Firsthand accounts ==
[[Theresa Caputo]], the Long Island-based, [[Pigasus Award]]-winning "medium" of the [[Reality television|reality TV]] series ''[[Long Island Medium]]'', simply calls her guide "Spirit", claiming that it is an entity that she has been able to sense since she was four years old.<ref>Gilbert, Ryan (June 26, 2012). [https://www.courant.com/2012/06/26/theresa-caputo-says-life-as-long-island-medium-is-bananas-2/ "Theresa Caputo Says Life As 'Long Island Medium' Is 'Bananas'"]. ''[[Hartford Courant]]''.</ref>

[[Spiritualism (religious movement)|American Spiritualists]] of the 19th and 20th centuries often described their guides as resembling [[Indigenous peoples of the Americas|Native American]]s. One popular spirit guide of this type, encountered by many Anglo-American Spiritualists, was named White Hawk. Among African-American Spiritualists, especially those in churches that were founded by or influenced by Mother [[Leafy Anderson]], the Native American guide was named [[Black Hawk (chief)|Black Hawk]], and was presumed to be the spirit of the [[Sauk people|Sac]] tribe warrior of the same name.<ref>Berry, Jason (November 1, 1995). ''The Spirit of Blackhawk: A Mystery of Africans and Indians''. [[University Press of Mississippi]].</ref>