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Voices in the Stones: Life Lessons from the Native Way

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Native Americans are lauded for their profound spirituality and deep understanding of the land Kent Nerburn here draws on his three decades living and working among Native peoples to offer stories and reflections that reveal what the ways of Native Americans have to teach us all about giving sharing grieving and celebrating Nerburn takes readers inside a Native feast that highlights respect for elders to a nearly forgotten Nez Perce battlefield and to both the traditional burial of a young man and the reinterment of the ancient bones of two teen aged girls At a dusty roadside cafe he introduces us to an elder who remembers when his ancestors could talk to animals Whether moving and dramatic delightfully humorous or the entire above these vignettes remind us that as common children of a common land we have much to be told from each and every other if only we have the heart to listen The genius of the Native Americans has all the time been their profound spirituality and their deep understanding of the land and its ways For three decades writer Kent Nerburn who has been known as some of the few writers who can respectfully bridge the gap between the Native and non Native cultures has lived and worked among Native American people Voices in the Stones Life Lessons from the Native Way is a unique number of his encounters experiences and reflections right through this time It opens with a poignant narrative of the American historical experience as seen through Native eyes followed by twelve chapters that each and every offer insight into a specific aspect of the Native understanding of a life well lived He’s taking us inside a traditional Native feast to show us how the children are taught to respect the elders He brings us to an isolated prairie rock outcropping where a young Native man and his father show us how the power of ceremony connects the present with the ancient voices of the past At a dusty roadside cafe he introduces us to an elder who remembers the time when his

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