Touch the Earth

7 best books like Touch the Earth (T.C. McLuhan): 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, Indian Boyhood, Indian Heroes and Great Chieftains

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...

American Indian Myths and Legends

Author

Richard Erdoes

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...

Fools Crow

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...

The Sacred Pipe: Black Elk's Account of the Seven Rites of the Oglala Sioux

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...

Indian Boyhood

Author

Charles Alexander Eastman

This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not...

Indian Heroes and Great Chieftains

Author	Charles Alexander Eastman
ISBN	1582186006

INDIAN HEROES AND GREAT CHIEFTAINS provides biographical sketches of 15 great Native American leaders, mostly Sioux, including portraits of Crazy Horse, Sitting Bull, and Spotted Tail. Eastman traces their historical importance to both white and Native peoples. Charles Eastman (Ohiyesa) was...