A Dogs Tale As Told By Lakota

Author : Graham Van Zant
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1514450542
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Dog’s Tale as Told by Lakota written by Graham Van Zant and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2016-02-16 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I have written this book from the viewpoint of one who has lived with and loved dogs since being a very young child. We had everything from springer spaniels to a big Newfoundlander. When I moved out on my own, I lived mainly in large cities, so I lived for many years not having a dog. When we bought our place in Hesperia with a large fenced-in yard, I knew it was time again to have a dog. I have been very spiritually oriented from early childhood and all through my adult life. As a young person, I had a very profound spiritual experience, and it changed my viewpoint on life very dramatically. In the book you will see how the spirit world seemed to intervene to bring about the relationship that has developed between my wife and me with our friend Lakota. Of all the dogs I have ever known, this one is the most unique and special. I started to write this book several years ago, and it just stalled. Recently I had another spiritual experience, and the doorway was opened again. The tale flowed freely from Lakota, and here we are with her story. It has been a joy to put it down in words in this book. I hope you enjoy it as much as I had fun in writing it.

Author : Mary Crow Dog
Publisher : Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
ISBN 13 : 080219155X
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lakota Woman written by Mary Crow Dog and published by Open Road + Grove/Atlantic. This book was released on 2014-11-18 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The bestselling memoir of a Native American woman’s struggles and the life she found in activism: “courageous, impassioned, poetic and inspirational” (Publishers Weekly). Mary Brave Bird grew up on the Rosebud Indian Reservation in South Dakota in a one-room cabin without running water or electricity. With her white father gone, she was left to endure “half-breed” status amid the violence, machismo, and aimless drinking of life on the reservation. Rebelling against all this—as well as a punishing Catholic missionary school—she became a teenage runaway. Mary was eighteen and pregnant when the rebellion at Wounded Knee happened in 1973. Inspired to take action, she joined the American Indian Movement to fight for the rights of her people. Later, she married Leonard Crow Dog, the AIM’s chief medicine man, who revived the sacred but outlawed Ghost Dance. Originally published in 1990, Lakota Woman was a national bestseller and winner of the American Book Award. It is a story of determination against all odds, of the cruelties perpetuated against American Indians, and of the Native American struggle for rights. Working with Richard Erdoes, one of the twentieth century’s leading writers on Native American affairs, Brave Bird recounts her difficult upbringing and the path of her fascinating life.

Author : Leonard C. Dog
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0062200143
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Crow Dog written by Leonard C. Dog and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2012-03-13 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "I am Crow Dog. I am the fourth of that name. Crow Dogs have played a big part in the history of our tribe and in the history of all the Indian nations of the Great Plains during the last two hundred years. We are still making history." Thus opens the extraordinary and epic account of a Native American clan. Here the authors, Leonard Crow Dog and Richard Erdoes (co-author of Lakota Woman) tell a story that spans four generations and sweeps across two centuries of reckless deeds and heroic lives, and of degradation and survival. The first Crow Dog, Jerome, a contemporary of Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse, was a witness to the coming of white soldiers and settlers to the open Great Plains. His son, John Crow Dog, traveled with Buffalo Bill Cody's Wild West Show. The third Crow Dog, Henry, helped introduce the peyote cult to the Sioux. And in the sixties and seventies, Crow Dog's principal narrator, Leonard Crow Dog, took up the family's political challenge through his involvement with the American Indian Movement (AIM). As a wichasha wakan, or medicine man, Leonard became AIM's spiritual leader and renewed the banned ghost dance. Staunchly traditional, Leonard offers a rare glimpse of Lakota spiritual practices, describing the sun dance and many other rituals that are still central to Sioux life and culture.

Author : Pekka Hamalainen
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300215959
Total Pages : 543 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lakota America written by Pekka Hamalainen and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2019-10-22 with total page 543 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first comprehensive history of the Lakota Indians and their profound role in shaping America's history Named One of the New York Times Critics' Top Books of 2019 - Named One of the 10 Best History Books of 2019 by Smithsonian Magazine - Winner of the MPIBA Reading the West Book Award for narrative nonfiction "Turned many of the stories I thought I knew about our nation inside out."--Cornelia Channing, Paris Review, Favorite Books of 2019 "My favorite non-fiction book of this year."--Tyler Cowen, Bloomberg Opinion "A briliant, bold, gripping history."--Simon Sebag Montefiore, London Evening Standard, Best Books of 2019 "All nations deserve to have their stories told with this degree of attentiveness"--Parul Sehgal, New York Times This first complete account of the Lakota Indians traces their rich and often surprising history from the early sixteenth to the early twenty-first century. Pekka Hämäläinen explores the Lakotas' roots as marginal hunter-gatherers and reveals how they reinvented themselves twice: first as a river people who dominated the Missouri Valley, America's great commercial artery, and then--in what was America's first sweeping westward expansion--as a horse people who ruled supreme on the vast high plains. The Lakotas are imprinted in American historical memory. Red Cloud, Crazy Horse, and Sitting Bull are iconic figures in the American imagination, but in this groundbreaking book they emerge as something different: the architects of Lakota America, an expansive and enduring Indigenous regime that commanded human fates in the North American interior for generations. Hämäläinen's deeply researched and engagingly written history places the Lakotas at the center of American history, and the results are revelatory.

Author : Margo Bowblis
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780692427781
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Walking with the Shadow of Love written by Margo Bowblis and published by . This book was released on 2013-11-15 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In her memoir, WALKING WITH THE SHADOW OF LOVE: The Remarkable Story of Lakota and the Zeakie Dog, the author/illustrator delves into some areas of pet ownership of great interest to a wide range of animal lovers. This beautiful memoir, illustrated and photographed by the author, is the story of her two working therapy dogs. The first dog is a purebred black Labrador from a fine breeder-the second, a mixed breed, puppy mill puppy who is losing his original home, and literally (and loudly) decides to "adopt" the author. The puppy grows into a statuesque, ninety-six pound dog who is surprisingly intelligent and becomes an intuitive, self-directed therapy dog. This dog with the humble origins, forms a bond so strong with the author and her other dog that even death cannot break it. Their story, above all, is a love story. The story begins with the training and raising of the first puppy, the adoption of the second puppy, and a description of the life of dogs and owner in a lake community in New Jersey. The dogs are both trained and certified as therapy dogs, and the reader gets to come along on some actual visits to people in facilities, and see the profound effect the two dogs have on the people they serve during these sessions. It is a joyful, rewarding, fulfilling lifestyle, until the unthinkable happens: at only four years of age, without the slightest hint of a warning, the adopted dog is stricken with an incurable cancer, so deadly that it threatens to take his life in a week or two-or even days. Enter a brilliant, dedicated, veterinary oncologist. She and the young dog's owner form an alliance to do battle with the disease, with the goal of extending the dog's life as much as possible, while providing a high quality of life-a life where he feels well, enjoys life, and can do all the things he loves. When they embark on this journey, neither one of them can even imagine the obstacles that will be put in front of them, or that, for the vet, the battle will become very, very personal, and require heroic measures on her part. Anyone who has ever battled this disease or watched someone they love fight it will relate to the struggle, the triumphs, the setbacks, and the need to live every day in presence and gratitude. What many people don't know, is that dogs are serving on the front lines of this battle. One of the most intriguing aspects of the book is its spiritual component. Do animals have souls? Will we ever see our beloved pets again, once they have left this life? Do they live on? This book delves into these questions and mysteries. In the introduction, the author explains that the book contains two separate story lines that run concurrently through the book. The first is the story as it unfolds. The second story line-in chapters printed in italics-consists of events that occur after the dog dies that provide convincing evidence that the dog is making its presence known. All along this journey, narrative photographs and illustrations of the dogs in the story keep us connected to these beautiful animals and their canine friends. The two story lines increase in intensity and barrel toward a life-altering, deeply emotional and spiritual conclusion that takes the reader to a place where few have gone. It is a place where they may learn a whole new concept of who our animals are, and a place that could be a great comfort to anyone who has ever lost an animal they love and been heartbroken.

Author :
Publisher : South Dakota State Historical Society
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 58 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tatanka and the Lakota People written by and published by South Dakota State Historical Society. This book was released on 2006 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Creation story of the Lakota in which Tatanka turned himself into a Buffalo and sacrificed his powers for the people.

Author : Kent Nerburn
Publisher : New World Library
ISBN 13 : 1577318862
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Neither Wolf nor Dog written by Kent Nerburn and published by New World Library. This book was released on 2010-09-07 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 1996 Minnesota Book Award winner — A Native American book The heart of the Native American experience: In this 1996 Minnesota Book Award winner, Kent Nerburn draws the reader deep into the world of an Indian elder known only as Dan. It’s a world of Indian towns, white roadside cafes, and abandoned roads that swirl with the memories of the Ghost Dance and Sitting Bull. Readers meet vivid characters like Jumbo, a 400-pound mechanic, and Annie, an 80-year-old Lakota woman living in a log cabin. Threading through the book is the story of two men struggling to find a common voice. Neither Wolf nor Dog takes readers to the heart of the Native American experience. As the story unfolds, Dan speaks eloquently on the difference between land and property, the power of silence, and the selling of sacred ceremonies. This edition features a new introduction by the author, Kent Nerburn. “This is a sobering, humbling, cleansing, loving book, one that every American should read.” — Yoga Journal If you enjoyed Empire of the Summer Moon, Heart Berries, or You Don’t Have to Say You Love Me, you’ll love owning and reading Neither Wolf nor Dog by Kent Nerburn.

Author : Charles Latona
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 0557672570
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Quest, a Lakota Legend written by Charles Latona and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2011-05 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Quest: A Lakota Legend by Charles Richard Latona

Author : Twain Mark
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 54 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Dog's Tale written by Twain Mark and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Joseph Bruchac
Publisher : Fulcrum Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781555910945
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Native American Stories written by Joseph Bruchac and published by Fulcrum Publishing. This book was released on 1991 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of Native American tales and myths focusing on the relationship between man and nature.