Wisdomkeepers: Meetings With Native American Spiritual Elders

With magnificent photographs and powerful words, WISDOMKEEPERS takes the reader into the inner thoughts and visions, the jokes, the healing remedies, and the humanity of Native American spiritual Elders. WISDOMKEEPERS takes you on an extraordinary spirit journey into lives, minds, and natural-world philosophy of Native American spiritual elders, including Sioux, Iroquois, Seminole, Ojibway, Hopi, Ute, Pawnee, Shinnecock, Hoh, Lumbee, and other tribes. The elders tell who they are, how they live and what they believe. Magnificent portraits complement the soaring text. They are the Elders, the Old Ones, the Grandfathers and Grandmothers. Among those profiled are Buffalo Jim, a Seminole who describes the Seminole story of creation as if the Everglade were Eden, talks of his people's individual passage into the afterlife and reveals that every field of wild plants to him a 'medicine garden.' You will, 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 pieces of a puzzle. Also profiled is Matthew King, a Lakota, who warns of punishments for those who destroy Mother Earth. Readers share the innermost thoughts and feelings, the dreams and the visions, the laughter, the healing remedies and prophecies of the Wisdomkeepers. Above all they offer their humanity which shines through every page.