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Author
Publisher
Wolf nor Dog Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Native Echoes is a quiet, thoughtful, profound book about the power of the land to shape our spirits. Using the traditions of storytelling that he learned from his time living and working among Native American peoples, author Kent Nerburn takes us into a world where an old pine tree evokes the spirit of his father, a fresh snowfall descends like "a prayer shawl donned upon the land", and the dark presence of a buffalo reveals a wildness in nature...
Author
Publisher
New World Library
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
A note is left on a car windshield, an old dog dies, and Kent Nerburn finds himself back on the Lakota reservation where he traveled more than a decade before with a tribal elder named Dan. The touching, funny, and haunting journey that ensues goes deep into reservation boardingschool mysteries, the dark confines of sweat lodges, and isolated Native homesteads far back in the Dakota hills in search of ghosts that have haunted Dan since childhood....
Author
Publisher
New World Library
Language
English
Formats
Description
1996 Minnesota Book Award winner — A Native American book
The heart of the Native American experience: In this 1996 Minnesota Book Award winner, Kent Nerburn draws the reader deep into the world of an Indian elder known only as Dan. It's a world of Indian towns, white roadside cafes, and abandoned roads that swirl with the memories of the Ghost Dance and Sitting Bull. Readers meet vivid characters like Jumbo,
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Series
Publisher
New World Library
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
A haunting dream that will not relent pulls author Kent Nerburn back into the hidden world of Native America, where dreams have meaning, animals are teachers, and the "old ones" still have powers beyond our understanding. In this latest narrative, we travel through the lands of the Lakota and the Ojibwe, where we encounter a strange little girl with an unnerving connection to the past, a forgotten asylum that history has tried to hide, and the complex,...
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