Native Heart: An American Indian Odyssey - Softcover

Horn, Gabriel

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0880032073 ISBN 13: 9780880032070

Publisher: Professional Careers, Inc., 1993

Synopsis

Most lives are lived solely in the present. But some lives are also lived with a spiritual and historical connection to the past. These lives grant us a sense of hope for the future. NATIVE HEART is the story of Gabriel Horn and his attempt to live a modern man's life that's true to the indigenous spirit of this land we call America. As a teacher in the American Indian Movement Survival Schools, and as a writer, activist, husband, and father, Horn presents a challenging and haunting perspective on our "new world" culture and values. Whether it's revealing a genocide Western historians choose to ignore, enabling Native American prisoners to pray with the pipe, or teaching his own Native children the lessons of nature and history, Horn stays true to his heart and to the vision that inspired his journey. His encounters with the "shadow people," his relationship to the Earth, and his quest for understanding and purpose within the "Great Holy Mystery" are retold in this intimate autobiographical novel.

About this title

From the Publisher:

Originally published by New World Library in 1993, this reprint of NATIVE HEART contains a new Foreword and Epilogue.

About the Author:

Gabriel Horn (White Deer of Autumn) is a nationally recognized lecturer on Native American philosophy and its connection to the rights of indigenous people, animals, and the welfare of the environment. Horn was one of the original teachers who helped establish the American Indian Movement Survival Schools in Minnesota and is now a professor of writing and literature. Selected for Who's Who Among America's Teachers, Horn has written the award-winning "Ceremony -- In The Circle of Life," as well as "Contemplations of a Primal Mind," "The Book of Ceremonies," and the novel "Transcendence," co-written with his wife Amy. He lives in Florida near the shores of the Gulf of Mexico.

About this edition

• Publisher: Professional Careers, Inc.
• Publication date: 1993
• ISBN 10: 0880032073
• ISBN 13: 9780880032070
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1