Indian Boyhood
8 best books like Indian Boyhood (Charles Alexander Eastman): Black Elk Speaks: Being the Life Story of a Holy Man of the Oglala Sioux, Zen in the Art of Archery, American Indian Myths and Legends, Fools Crow, The Sacred Pipe: Black Elk's Account of the Seven Rites of the Oglala Sioux, Touch the Earth, [insert] boy, Don’t Let Me Be Lonely: An American Lyric
Black Elk Speaks: Being the Life Story of a Holy Man of the Oglala Sioux
| Author | Black Elk |
| ISBN | 0803283857 |
This is a haunting and moving transcription of interviews with the revered medicine man Black Elk of the Oglala band of the Lakota Sioux in 1930 at the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota. The editor, John Neihart, was a poet who was writing an epic poem about Messiah movement in the 1880’s among diverse...
Zen in the Art of Archery
| Author | Eugen Herrigel |
| ISBN | 0375705090 |
The path to achieving Zen (a balance between the body and the mind) is brilliantly explained by Professor Eugen Herrigel in this timeless account.
This book is the result of the author’s six year quest to learn archery in the hands of Japanese Zen masters. It is an honest account of one man’s...
This magnificent collection gathers 160 tales from 80 tribal gathers to offer a rich and lively panorama of the Native American mythic heritage. From all across the continent come tales of creation and love, of heroes and war, of animals, tricksters, and the end of the world. Alfonso Ortiz, an eminent...
| Author | Thomas E. Mails |
| ISBN | 0803281749 |
Frank Fools Crow, a spiritual and civic leader of the Teton Sioux, spent nearly a century helping those of every race. A disciplined, gentle man who upheld the old ways, he was aggrieved by the social ills he saw besetting his own people and forthright in denouncing them. When he died in 1989 at the Pine...
| Author | Black Elk |
| ISBN | 0806121246 |
Black Elk of the Sioux has been recognized as one of the truly remarkable men of his time in the matter of religious belief and practice. Shortly before his death in August, 1950, when he was the "keeper of the sacred pipe," he said, "It is my prayer that, through our sacred pipe, and through this book in which...
Read borrowed copy after was suggested to me, published in 1971. Has stories and memories and essays from various Native Americans. Organized by those of Nature, of the white man, their losses and their desire to keep going. The first chapter is my favorite, beautifully written, quite spiritual. A...
The next time someone tells you spoken word poets can’t make poems come to life on the page, send them to Danez Smith’s [insert] boy, a remarkable debut collection that puts that tired notion to bed once and for all. In these poems, Smith opens the reader to a world of desire, longing, and deep mourning...
Don’t Let Me Be Lonely: An American Lyric
| Author | Claudia Rankine |
| ISBN | 1555974074 |
In this powerful sequence of TV images and essay, Claudia Rankine explores the personal and political unrest of our volatile new century.
I forget things too. It makes me sad. Or it makes me the saddest. The sadness is not really about George W. or our American optimism; the sadness lives in the...
