The Girl Who Sang to the Buffalo: A Child, an Elder, and the Light from an Ancient Sky

The Girl Who Sang to the Buffalo: A Child, an Elder, and the Light from an Ancient SkyA haunting dream that will not relent pulls author Kent Nerburn back into the hidden world of Native America, where dreams have meaning, animals are teachers, and the "old ones" still have powers beyond our understanding. In this moving narrative, we travel through the lands of the Lakota and the Ojibwe, where we encounter a strange little girl with an unnerving connection to the past, a forgotten asylum that history has tried to hide, and the

As many of us begin to question the origins and collateral costs of the food we consume

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"And now here is my secret

The Anishinaabe and Dakota peoples of the Great Lakes and Northern Great Plains dominated the politics and political economy of these interconnected regions

Zitkala-A a is a wonderful storyteller-even with some old-fashioned language

As they reconstruct and deconstruct the aadizookaan

Barely surviving a horrific traffic accident

and depth of feeling of a master craftsman

Whether looking back to a troubled past or welcoming a hopeful future

From genealogists searching online for their ancestors to fortune hunters hoping for a slice of casino profits from wealthy tribes

deforestation

both tribal and nontribal