The Man Made of Words: Essays, Stories, Passages
5 best books like The Man Made of Words: Essays, Stories, Passages (N. Scott Momaday): Black Elk Speaks: Being the Life Story of a Holy Man of the Oglala Sioux, Death Comes for the Archbishop, The Shamanic Way of the Bee: Ancient Wisdom and Healing Practices of the Bee Masters, Yellow Woman and a Beauty of the Spirit, The Disobedience of the Daughter of the Sun: A Mayan Tale of Ecstasy, Time, and Finding One's True Form
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...
| Author | Willa Cather |
| ISBN | 0679728899 |
There is something epic—and almost mythic—about this sparsely beautiful novel by Willa Cather, although the story it tells is that of a single human life, lived simply in the silence of the desert. In 1851 Father Jean Marie Latour comes as the Apostolic Vicar to New Mexico. What he finds is a vast...
The Shamanic Way of the Bee: Ancient Wisdom and Healing Practices of the Bee Masters
| Author | Simon Buxton |
| ISBN | 1594771197 |
Reveals for the first time the ancient tradition of bee shamanism and its secret practices and teachings
• Examines the healing and ceremonial powers of the honeybee and the hive
• Reveals bee shamanism’s system of acupuncture, which predates the Chinese systems
•...
Yellow Woman and a Beauty of the Spirit
| Author | Leslie Marmon Silko |
| ISBN | 0684827077 |
Bold and impassioned, sharp and defiant, Leslie Marmon Silko's essays evoke the spirit and voice of Native Americans. Whether she is exploring the vital importance literature and language play in Native American heritage, illuminating the inseparability of the land and the Native American people,...
| Author | Martin Prechtel |
| ISBN | 1556436009 |
Author and illustrator Martín Prechtel is internationally known for his explorations of ancient folklore and uncovering the lessons therein for modern readers. In The Disobedience of the Daughter of the Sun, he revives a hitherto unknown Guatemalan Tzutujil Mayan tale of the beginnings of the...
