North American Studies Area Books : The Wisdom of the Native Americans (Religion and Spirituality)

The Wisdom of the Native Americans (Religion and Spirituality)

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Paradise lost! - This book is a superb read, the red indians had a wonderful natural life before the europeans went over there & thought they would civilise them!Just imagine no need for money, no thugs no crime & no prisons!! Plus a natural & cultural education.....

This book is like warm sunshine on the soul - This book is a great intro to the wisdom of Native Americans, as well as it offers such a nice collection of glimpses into completely different ways of life that can be created by human kind. Particularly touching also are the testimonials from Indian leaders showing how they practiced a culture and attitude of respect and constructive engagement with whites, only to be met often enough with a response of demented brutality and destruction of their people. Reading this book made me imagine what an exhilirating experience it must have been to live in societies where dignity and respect and bravery and a deeply holistic way of life with nature was the underlying matrix of society. What precious things have been lost with the genocide of indigenous peoples. It also made me think how nice it would be if Hollywood, TV, and pop culture instead of putting out their usual trash, went by rooting their production in the teachings such as those chronicled in this book. Readers may also be interested in Lies My Teacher Told Me : Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong by J.Lowen. Lowen tells in one of the chapters regarding Native Americans that at a certain point in time, colonial Europeans in North America had serious trouble in keeping many white people from running away from the Euro communities to join Native American societies. This book offers a glimpse as to why that would have been quite nice. Vera




The Wisdom of the Native Americans (Religion and Spirituality)