Nature's Way: Native Wisdom for Living in Balance With the Earth - Hardcover

McGaa, Ed

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0060514566 ISBN 13: 9780060514563

Publisher: Harper San Francisco, 2004

Synopsis

The best-selling author of Mother Earth Spirituality draws on his Vietnam combat experiences and the lessons he has learned from the natural world to share Native American perspectives on possible solutions to ecological problems, religious intolerance, and gender inequality. 25,000 first printing.

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Review:

[McGaa] takes us to a new level of perception of the world around us and within us. --Jack Weatherford, Prof. of Anthropology at Macalaster College, author of Indian Givers: How the Indians of the Americas Transformed the World

Refreshingly honest, McGaas impassioned plea for environmental awareness is impossible to ignore. --Booklist

About the Author:

Ed McGaa, J.D., was born on the Oglala Sioux reservation in South Dakota and is a registered tribal member. He served in Korea as a Marine Corporal before earning an undergraduate degree at St. John's University in Minnesota. He then rejoined the Marine Corps to become a Phantom F4 fighter pilot in Vietnam, where he flew in more than a hundred combat missions. Upon his return McGaa danced in six annual Sioux Sun Dances. The Sun Dance led him to the seven Mother Earth ceremonies under the tutelage of Chief Eagle Feather and Chief Fools Crow, two Sioux holy men. Eagle Man holds a law degree from the University of South Dakota and is the author of Red Cloud: Biography of an Indian Chief; Mother Earth Spirituality: Healing Ourselves and Our World; Rainbow Tribe: Ordinary People Journeying on the Red Road; Native Wisdom: Perceptions of the Natural Way; and the novel Eagle Vision: Return of the Hoop.

About this edition

• Publisher: Harper San Francisco
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0060514566
• ISBN 13: 9780060514563
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 272