To You We Shall Return: Lessons About Our Planet from the Lakota - Hardcover

Marshall III, Joseph M.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1402736088 ISBN 13: 9781402736087

Publisher: Sterling Ethos, 2010

Synopsis

Grandmother, you who listen and hear all, you from whom all good things come It is your embrace we feel when we return to you ”  This traditional Lakota prayer to Grandmother Earth opens Joseph Marshall III's newest work, a meditation on our connection to the land and an exhortation to respect it. Using a combination of personal anecdote, detailed history, and Lakota tales, Marshall takes us back to his childhood and shows us how we, too, can learn to love our planet.
Although he was educated in Euro-American schools, Marshall had the benefit of growing up with wise grandparents who taught him never to walk a path without knowing the trail from which he'd come: that the bow does not make the hunter, and above all, that the earth can be boundlessly generous-if we can learn to accept its gifts.

About this title

About the Author:

Joseph M. Marshall III was born on the Rosebud Indian Reservation in South Dakota and raised by his maternal grandparents. He is an historian, educator, motivational speaker and Lakota craftsman; he has worked as both technical advisor and actor in television movies, including Return to Lonesome Dove. A recipient of the Wyoming Humanities Award, he is author of numerous collections of essays and short stories.

From AudioFile:

This work by the Lakota philosopher is a meditation on our connection to the land and an exhortation to respect it. Marshall combines personal history, tribal history, and metaphysics with modern analogies and commentary. His message is best captured by the Lakota ethos that the people belong to the land, not the other way round, and that the land is a resource like the air, that no one can own. His overarching point is that the earth can be boundlessly generous if we can learn to accept its gifts. Marshall delivers the book himself in a measured, deliberate style. His reading is paced well and expresses subtle emotion. R.C.G. © AudioFile 2010, Portland, Maine

About this edition

• Publisher: Sterling Ethos
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 1402736088
• ISBN 13: 9781402736087
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 192