Living the Lakota Way: Learning from the Land, the Spirits, and Our Ancestors

Marshall, Joseph, III

ISBN 10: 1604077131 ISBN 13: 9781604077131

Casa editrice: Sounds True, 2012

Riassunto

An Invitation to Share the Inheritance of Lakota Wisdom

We are all indigenous to the planet Earth—and that is why each of us can benefit from indigenous wisdom. Throughout their history, the Lakota people developed many enduring insights and practices for achieving harmony with all the forces in our life—including the land, the spirits, our community, and ourselves. On Living the Lakota Way, Joseph M. Marshall explores how you can apply the core principles of Lakota wisdom to your own life, no matter who you are or where you come from.

Lessons for Living with Simplicity, Courage, and Purpose

Through his gifts as a storyteller, Joseph Marshall brings Lakota history and lore to life with his words. With each piece of Lakota tradition he shares, Joseph offers a special focus on the aspects that are most valuable and relevant to us today in our own lives. How do we choose the heroes that we honor? Where do we find the strength to make it through challenging times? How do we relate to the earth, to our ancestors, and to the profound mystery of the spirit world? The Lakota tradition, as Joseph Marshall imparts it, can provide us with much-needed guidance for finding answers to the essential questions of our lives.

The Lakota people begin prayers with words that mean “All My Relatives,” addressing the people, animals, elements, and spirits as being all part of a single great family. It is in this spirit of kinship that Joseph M. Marshall offers the greatest treasure of his people—the wisdom of Lakota traditions, philosophy, and stories.Living the Lakota Way is an invitation in friendship to share an inheritance that arose from one people but was meant to enrich us all.

HIGHLIGHTS

• Honoring our ancestors—how knowing the story of where we came from helps us define who we are
• Ceremonies and rituals—Joseph explores the meaning of these important traditions and how they can inform our own spiritual practice
• Who are your heroes? The Lakota perspective on honoring the full story of those we choose to admire
• Prayer and the spirit world—how we relate to the unseen aspects of reality and the mystery of the divine
• Healing—guidance from the Lakota tradition on the role of healers, belief, and community
• The heartbeat of Grandmother Earth—how we can reconnect to the source of all life

Su questo libro

L'autore:

Joseph M. Marshall III

Joseph M. Marshall III is a teacher, historian, writer, storyteller, and a Lakota craftsman. He was born on the Rosebud Sioux Indian Reservation in South Dakota and raised in a traditional native household by his maternal grandparents. He has published nine nonfiction works including The Lakota Way: Stories and Lessons for Living and To You We Shall Return: Lessons About Our Planet from the Lakota, three novels, a collection of short stories and essays, a children's book, and was contributing author in five other publications; and has written several screenplays. Several of his books have been published in French, Hebrew, Korean, Japanese, German, Italian, Chinese, Romanian, Portuguese, Spanish, and Bulgarian.

In addition, Joseph has had several major screen appearances, including a role in the television network movie,Return to Lonesome Dove, and as a technical advisor and narrator for the Turner Network Television (TNT) and DreamWorks six part mini-seriesInto the West. Joseph has been recognized for his writing, scholarship, and service with numerous awards, including the Wyoming Humanities Award and the 2009 Benjamin Franklin Award for Historical Fiction. He is also a practitioner of primitive Lakota archery, having learned from his maternal grandfather the art of hand-crafting bows and arrows, and is a specialist in wilderness survival.

Joseph and his wife Connie (also his literary agent and manager) are the parents of a blended family and have sixteen grandchildren. For more about Joseph's writings and appearances, please visit www.thunderdreamers.com.

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Book by Marshall III Joseph M

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Sounds True
• Data di pubblicazione: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1604077131
• ISBN 13: 9781604077131
• Rilegatura: Audio CD
• Numero di pagine: 6