Wisdomkeepers: Meetings With Native American Spiritual Elders (The Earthsong Collection) - Hardcover

Harvey Arden; Steve Wall

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0941831558 ISBN 13: 9780941831550

Publisher: Beyond Words Publishing, 1990

Synopsis

Interviews with religious leaders from various Indian tribes share their world views

About this title

Book Description:

Wisdomkeepers takes you on an extraordinary spiritual journey into the lives, minds, and natural-world philosophy of Native American spiritual elders. The elders tell who they are, how they live, and what they believe. Magnificent portraits complement the soaring text. Among those profiled are Buffalo Jim, a Seminole who describes the Seminole story of creation as if the Everglades were Eden, talks of his people's individual passage into the after life, and reveals that every field of wild plants is, to him, a medicine garden. You'll also meet "Uncle" Frank Davis (Fancy Warrior), a Pawnee Elder who describes the "path to understanding" as a trial filled with scraps of paper, each one a piece of a puzzle. Also profiled is Mathew King, a Lakota who warns of punishments or those who would destroy the Earth Mother. Readers share the innennost thoughts and feelings, dreams and visions, laughter, healing remedies, and prophecies of the Wisdomkeepers, whose humanity shines through every page.

About the Author:

Steve Wall, a documentary photographer, has worked in more than forty countries, primarily for National Geographic magazine and books. His work has been featured in the United States and international publications and exhibited in galleries, museums, and collections in more than eight countries, including The International Center of Photography in New York and the Gallery of the Union of Artists in Moscow, Russia.

About this edition

• Publisher: Beyond Words Publishing
• Publication date: 1990
• ISBN 10: 0941831558
• ISBN 13: 9780941831550
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 128
• Editor: White Deer Of Autumn