RavenShadow: 2 (Native Spirit Adventures) - Softcover

Blevins, Win

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0692203710 ISBN 13: 9780692203712

Publisher: WordWorx Publishing, 2015

Synopsis

In RavenShadow, the Wordcraft Circle of Native Writers winner, the Sioux's rhythmic nature of time is rendered in stunning detail. A tale of lost faith and crowning redemption that is destined to become an American classic. Before he was born, Joseph was chosen to carry the sacred ways of his Sioux people. But instead of walking the good Red Road of his people, he put his feet on the White Road of basketball and booze, women and the blues. In following the white man's road, a road that was not his, Joseph Blue Crow has lost his Lakota heritage and is haunted by the loss. After the inexplicable suicide of the woman he loves, and as he sinks into alcoholism and despair, he stands on the precipice of suicide-a train roaring to his car on the railroad tracks. His best friend tells him, "You got to go on the mountain." Blue's journey takes him on a torturous path. As he is guided by a shaman and a spirit bird, under whose wings lay the shadows of the past, he revisits-and relives, going from the present world to the past-the massacre of Wounded Knee, standing beside his people and family as they fall under the gun and cannon fire. Will Blue find redemption and healing? That is the center of this extraordinary story. "With the skill of the fine novelist that he is, Win Blevins takes a modern Oglala Sioux radio jockey into the spirit world of his ancestors, including the stark tragedy of Wounded Knee. RavenShadow has the impact of a hurled war lance."-Dee Brown, author of Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee "Win Blevins has long since won his place among the West's very best. RavenShadow adds a new dimension to reputation." -Tony Hillerman "Best known for Stone Song, his vivid, lyrical novel of the life of Crazy Horse, Blevins here introduces Joseph Blue Crow, a 1990s Lakota Sioux who calls himself a Great White Doubter. Narrator Joseph feels he is red on the outside but white on the inside ("I thought the white way was the way, and the red way should get left behind"). "Althoug

About this title

From the Publisher

"Win Blevins has long since won his place among the West's very best. RavenShadow adds a new dimension to his reputation." --Tony Hillerman

About this edition

• Publisher: WordWorx Publishing
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 0692203710
• ISBN 13: 9780692203712
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 476