Reluctant Pilgrim : a Skeptic's Journey into Native Mysteries.
Forty years ago, while paging through a book sent as an unexpected gift from a friend, Roger Welsch came across a curious reference to stones that were round, "like the sun and moon." According to Tatonka-ohitka, Brave Buffalo (Sioux), these stones were sacred. "I make my request of t...
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| 505 | 0 | |a ""Cover""; ""Title Page""; ""Copyright Page""; ""Dedication""; ""Epigraph""; ""Contents""; ""Preface""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""1. A Lesson from Stones""; ""2. Lessons from People Who Know""; ""3. A Lesson from Elders""; ""4. Early Lessons""; ""5. Definitions and Distinctions""; ""6. The Lesson of the Skulls""; ""7. Resistance to the Irresistible""; ""8. The Lesson of the Dolmen""; ""9. A Lesson from the Pipe""; ""10. The Lesson of the Feather""; ""11. The Dubious Eye of Coyote""; ""12. A Lesson from Poop""; ""13. The Pilgrim""; ""14. Establishing a Cosmic Buffer Zone"" | |
| 505 | 8 | |a ""15. A Lesson from Touching the Fire""""16. Lessons from the Zealot""; ""17. Lessons from Real Shock and Awe""; ""18. Lessons of Hubris""; ""19. Lessons from Mother Corn and Father Buffalo""; ""20. Lessons from the Nahurac""; ""21. Where Lessons Are Lost""; ""22. Lessons of Place""; ""23. Lessons from Lines""; ""24. Lessons from the Fourth Hill""; ""25. Lessons from Lessons""; ""26. Lessons from the Muse""; ""27. Lessons from the Power""; ""28. A Lesson from Prayer""; ""29. Still More Lessons from Lessons""; ""30. Lessons in Brief""; ""The Lessons of Others""; ""About Roger Welsch"" | |
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