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The Girl Who Sang to the Buffalo: A Child, an Elder, and the Light from an Ancient Sky
Written by Kent Nerburn
Narrated by Peter Berkrot
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A haunting dream that will not relent pulls author Kent Nerburn back into the hidden world of Native America, where dreams have meaning, animals are teachers, and the "old ones" still have powers beyond our understanding.
In this moving narrative, we travel through the lands of the Lakota and the Ojibwe, where we encounter a strange little girl with an unnerving connection to the past, a forgotten asylum that history has tried to hide, and the complex, unforgettable characters we have come to know from Neither Wolf nor Dog and The Wolf at Twilight. Part history, part mystery, part spiritual journey and teaching story, The Girl Who Sang to the Buffalo is filled with the profound insight into humanity and Native American culture we have come to expect from Nerburn's journeys. As the American Indian College Fund has stated, once you have encountered Nerburn's stirring evocations of America's high plains and incisive insights into the human heart, "you can never look at the world, or at people, the same way again."
In this moving narrative, we travel through the lands of the Lakota and the Ojibwe, where we encounter a strange little girl with an unnerving connection to the past, a forgotten asylum that history has tried to hide, and the complex, unforgettable characters we have come to know from Neither Wolf nor Dog and The Wolf at Twilight. Part history, part mystery, part spiritual journey and teaching story, The Girl Who Sang to the Buffalo is filled with the profound insight into humanity and Native American culture we have come to expect from Nerburn's journeys. As the American Indian College Fund has stated, once you have encountered Nerburn's stirring evocations of America's high plains and incisive insights into the human heart, "you can never look at the world, or at people, the same way again."
Author
Kent Nerburn
Kent Nerburn has been widely praised as one of the few writers who can respectfully bridge the gap between native and nonnative cultures. His book Neither Wolf nor Dog: On Forgotten Roads with an Indian Elder won the 1995 Minnesota Book Award.
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Thank you. The tears of joy and sadness, feelings of happiness, honor, sacredness, mixed with the best humor- I can’t get enough of these books. They make my soul sing and heart feel home.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Very good book that gives great insight into to one of the many Native American assimilation processes, Native spirituality and journey of a kindred friendship.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The natives! Will recommend it to all. Thanks you again.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Absolutely Great. I would recommend this book to all readers.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Loved it! Interesting story, heartwarming and wishing for more story.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5I kept thinking of the similarities between Carlos Castaneda when I was listening to this audio book. Where as with both authors they are influenced by older wise man of pre European culture.
Kent’s books are creative artistic way of learning about a very important issue in American history with issues that still lingers today.
Kent Nerburns books should be required reading for schools. Kids will love them for they have creativity of Harry Potter books with important minority history. - Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5An excellent story told from a non-Native American about the need to respect the similarities and differences between cultures and how those diverse cultures intersect in mystifying ways.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A very beautifully written and thought provoking book - centered around a search for information regarding the young sister of a tribal elder. The young sister was placed in the Hiawatha Asylum for Insane Indians (a real facility in Canton, South Dakota. "Yellow Bird" never left. Contained in this story are sections with very moving environmental messages.. The tone of this book varied from depressing, humorous, historical, and infuriating.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Thought provoking. Will have to reread later after I have thought about it for awhile.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Not since Black Elk Speaks: Being the Life Story of a Holy Man of the Oglala Sioux by John G. Neihardt have I read a book that touched my heart in this way. Many years ago, why my children were young, I brought home a copy of Black Elk Speaks that I had found in a second hand books store and it wouldn't let me leave without it. Since that days, so long ago we have probably purchased six other copies, one for each of my children, and two or more for lending.. one to stay home. I have lost count. This will join the battered copy of that book on my shelf, the one where the books live that will always stay with me. This book, The Girl Who Sang to the Buffalo: A Child, an Elder, and the Light from an Ancient Sky by Kent Nerburn is a life changer, a spirit toucher, a heartbreaker. This is a story, and it is a truth.Why do these books touch me is so strong a way? I don't know, as in this lifetime, I have not walked in the shoes of any but a white woman, but somewhere in the past, in a lifetime long ago, I think I knew. For this reason, I think I can also hear the ring of truth in words spoken, or written. I found this book waiting patiently for me on a list of Vine books, and I knew it had to be mine.You will read the story of Yellow Bird, her family and her her ancestors, and her gifts. This is a story of how gifts are passed, how elders remember and why. This is a story of the world the way it was meant to be, not what we have twisted it into.Recommended.