The Lakota Way of Strength and Courage: Lessons in Resilience from the Bow and Arrow - Softcover

Marshall III, Joseph

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1459632842 ISBN 13: 9781459632844

Publisher: ReadHowYouWant, 2012

Synopsis

In Lakota tradition, the bow and arrow were more than tools for hunting or battle. The bow's resilience and flexibility, the arrow's grace and power, the archer's focus and patiencein these, we find the essential qualities for living a life of strength, purpose, and simplicity. In The Lakota Way of Strength and Courage, Joseph M. Marshall builds upon the central metaphor of the bow and arrow to provide a treasury of insights, stories, and irreplaceable wisdom. With elegant and captivating writings, this master storyteller illuminates timeless lessons on:

• Transformationhow we can preserve what is fundamental even as our external circumstances change
• Simplicitythe story of grandmother Grass Braid, who understood that ''the more you know, the less you need to carry''
• Strength and Resiliencywhat the history and lore of the Lakota can teach us about growing through adversity
• Purposehow the world unveils our purpose to us, as revealed in story of the Keeper of the Winter Count

Once, the Lakota people relied on the ash bow and the willow arrow to provide food and sustenance. Today, these simple tools can offer us something even more precious: a way to nourish our souls with spiritual wisdom. Joseph M. Marshall offers a book that is at once profound, honest, and rich with meaning as he reveals The Lakota Way of Strength and Courage.

About this title

About the Author:

Joseph Marshall III is a teacher, historian, Lakota craftsman, and writer. He has authored several screenplays in addition to five books including the highly acclaimed The Lakota Way (Viking Compass, 2002). Joseph Marshall III is a member of the Rosebud Sioux Tribe, and the recipient of the Wyoming Humanities Award. Raised on the Rosebud Sioux Indian Reservation and now a Lakota lineage holder, Joseph Marshall III is one of the few voices empowered to share the authentic wisdom teachings of his people with non-Native Americans.

Review:

“Joseph Marshall is a master storyteller who reveals profound principles of ancestral wisdom. In a brilliant weaving of metaphorical teaching, Marshall shares a treasury of insights for living a life of strength, purpose, and simplicity. This is such an important book for our times!” —Sandra Ingerman, author of Soul Retrieval and Awakening to the Spirit World

“Joseph Marshall weaves the magic of narrative storytelling with his own personal wisdom to beautifully portray the Lakota and Native American perspective of life and living. This book will make its readers see their own lives through a different filter and will contribute to a shift toward connected and fulfilling community.” —Ann Marie Chiasson, MD, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Arizona Center for Integrative Medicine, University of Arizona

“As the peoples of both the Western and indigenous world reshape themselves in response to our time of unparalleled changes, The Lakota Way of Strength and Courage provides us with a mirror in which we may all contemplate our reflection. This is a book in which a traditional story offers us an interesting bit of advice: ‘If you do not know who you are, then it does not matter what you believe.’ In this book, Lakota lineage holder Joseph Marshall has made very good medicine indeed.” —Hank Wesselman, PHD, anthropologist and award-winning author of Awakening to the Spirit World, The Bowl of Light, and The Spiritwalker Trilogy

“In The Lakota Way of Strength and Courage, traditional elder Joseph Marshall gives us an in-depth, intimate view of pre-reservation Native American resourcefulness and values, as well as how they can inspire us to develop our own purpose, strength, and resilience.” —Nicki Scully, author of Becoming an Oracle and Planetary Healing

“The Lakota Way of Strength and Courage is an exquisitely crafted and inspiring book, representative of a vanishing genre of work from elders who have lived before our modern times.” —Lewis Mehl-Madrona, author of Coyote Medicine

About this edition

• Publisher: ReadHowYouWant
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1459632842
• ISBN 13: 9781459632844
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 252