The coauthor of the best-selling Wisdomkeepers presents an intriguing look inside the world of the aborigines of Australia, focusing on their cultural traditions, their "spirit-journey," and the ancient metaphysical concept of the "Dreamtime."

Dreamkeepers: A Spirit-Journey into Aboriginal Australia

Politics & Social Sciences

Arden, Harvey

Anthropology

Harpercollins

The co-author of the bestselling Wisdomkeepers interviews women elders of several Native American nations to reveal the fascinating knowledge, philosophies, and traditions of their ancestry.

Wisdom's Daughters: Conversations With Women Elders of Native America

Religion & Spirituality

Wall, Steve

Other Religions, Practices & Sacred Texts

Perennial

Cast a aside all things familiar and join Harvey Arden on an extraordinary spirit-journey into the minds, hearts, and dreams of australia's aboriginal peoples, custodians of the oldest culture on earth. Through haunting photographs and an exquisitely crafted narrative, dreamkeepers brings to life a world where aboriginal "Dreamtime Ancestors" -- the rainbow snake, the lightning brothers, and the mysterious wandjina, or cloud-beings-still sustain the visionary belief system of a proud ancient, and gifted people.

Prison Writings: My Life Is My Sun Dance

Incarcerated for the last twenty-four years, the Native American activist shares his life story, as well as philosophical views on prison and how it has affected him

Biographies & Memoirs

Peltier, Leonard

Community & Culture

St Martins Pr

Two journalists who came back from an assignment in Indian Country with a powerful message for humankind share the intensely personal story surrounding their time with the Wisdomkeepers, and continue to extoll the Native American approach to humanity and life. 25,000 first printing. Tour.

Travels in a Stone Canoe: The Return to the Wisdomkeepers

Social Sciences

Simon&Schuster

Rich with magnificent photographs and powerful words, this book takes the reader into the inner thoughts, jokes, healing remedies, and humanity of Native American spiritual elders—otherwise known as the Wisdomkeepers. In their own words elders from the Sioux, Iroquois, Seminole, Ojibwe, Hopi, Ute, Pawnee, and other tribes explain who they are, how they live, and what they believe. Readers learn of Buffalo Jim, a Seminole who describes the story of creation as if the Everglades were Eden, and Mathew King, a Lakota who warns of punishments for those who would destroy earth. Readers share the innermost thoughts and feelings, the dreams and visions, the laughter, the healing remedies, and the prophecies of the Wisdomkeepers. Above all, the elders offer their humanity, which shines through each page. They are the Elders, the Old Ones, the Grandfathers and Grandmothers, the fragile repositories of sacred ways and natural wisdom going back millennia, yet never more relevant than today.

Wisdomkeepers: Meetings With Native American Spiritual Elders (Earthsong Collection)

Beyond Words

Wall and Arden reminisce about meetings with Native American spiritual leaders who show how we can find our way back to ourselves--and to the natural world. 2 cassettes.

Wisdomkeepers: Meetings With Native American Spiritual Elders/ Cassettes

Historical

Audio Literature

In this luminous story, two journalists from National Geographic on assignment in Indian Country cross an invisible boundary between two worlds, two different visions of reality - and find their lives transformed. In a stunning and probing narrative - part adventure tale, part reflection and epiphany - the authors of Wisdomkeepers embark on a dramatic "spirit journey" into the living wisdom of Native American spiritual elders. When, nearly twenty years ago, a darkly enigmatic Cherokee herbalist approached Harvey Arden and Steve Wall with the proposition that they join him in a study of the lives, wisdom, and spiritual practices of Native America's fast-disappearing "Old Ones", the veteran writer and photographer found themselves thrust, despite their own hard-nosed skepticism, onto a mystic "path of the Wisdomkeepers". After receiving "signs" foretold by the Cherokee, they set off on a journey of spiritual discovery through another world, called Great Turtle Island, where the Old Ones - the Wisdomkeepers of aboriginal culture in North America - bestowed upon them piece by surprising piece a set of "rules for being human" called "Original Instructions". Arden and Wall eventually left their Geographic careers and journalism altogether, and in 1990 produced an interim report on their spirit journey, their now-classic international bestseller Wisdomkeepers: Meeting with Native American Spiritual Elders. In that book they recalled, "We went out two journalists after a good story. We came back two 'runners' from another world, carrying an urgent message from the Wisdomkeepers. This book is that message". Now, in Travels in a Stone Canoe, that message is further deepened and elaborated as the authors reveal the intensely personal story behind - and beyond - their journey to the Wisdomkeepers. A final, incandescent chapter, "Original Instructions", sums up the transforming and highly practical wisdom they found. "Wisdom",

Travels in a Stone Canoe: The Return of the Wisdomkeepers

History

World

Wisdomkeepers: Meetings with Native American Spiritual Elders

Wisdomkeepers takes you on an extraordinary spiritual journey into the lives, minds, and natural-world philosophy of Native American spiritual elders. The elders tell who they are, how they live, and what they believe. Magnificent portraits complement the soaring text. Among those profiled are Buffalo Jim, a Seminole who describes the Seminole story of creation as if the Everglades were Eden, talks of his people’s individual passage into the after life, and reveals that every field of wild plants is, to him, a medicine garden. You’ll also meet "Uncle" Frank Davis (Fancy Warrior), a Pawnee Elder who describes the "path to understanding" as a trail filled with scraps of paper, each one a piece of a puzzle. Also profiled is Mathew King, a Lakota who warns of punishments for those who would destroy the Earth Mother. Readers share the innermost thoughts and feelings, dreams and visions, laughter, healing remedies, and prophecies of the Wisdomkeepers, whose humanity shines through every page.

Wisdomkeepers: Meetings With Native American Spiritual Elders

Council Oaks Distribution

The grandson of both Crazy Horse and Sitting Bull, Mathew King was a respected Elder of the Lakota (Sioux) Nation. His personal history, vision, and insights are compiled in this volume, structured to read like a conversation between trusted friends. King speaks about Native American spirituality, personal responsibility to one's land and people, and the struggles of the Lakota people to coexist with white people.

Noble Red Man: Lakota Wisdomkeeper Mathew King

Americas

Atria Books/Beyond Words

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Dreamkeepers: A Spirit-Journey into Aboriginal Australia

Wisdom's Daughters: Conversations With Women Elders of Native America

Dreamkeepers: A Spirit-Journey into Aboriginal Australia

Prison Writings: My Life Is My Sun Dance

Travels in a Stone Canoe: The Return to the Wisdomkeepers

Wisdomkeepers: Meetings With Native American Spiritual Elders (Earthsong Collection)

Wisdomkeepers: Meetings With Native American Spiritual Elders/ Cassettes

Travels in a Stone Canoe: The Return of the Wisdomkeepers

Wisdomkeepers: Meetings With Native American Spiritual Elders

Noble Red Man: Lakota Wisdomkeeper Mathew King