Touching the Fire: Buffalo Dancers, the Sky Bundle, and Other Tales
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Book Overview
The Turtle Creek band of the fictional Nehawka Indians wages a battle for the return of their sacred Sky Bundle, a medicine pouch containing artifacts. It reposes under glass in an eastern museum at the beginning of Touching the Fire. Seven interlinked stories, beginning with a court battle in the year 2001 and going far back in time to the origin of the Bundle and the first Nehawka village on the Great Plains, reveal the richness and depth of Indian cultural heritage. Touching the Fire is multilayered--sad, humorous, and always informative.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:080329798X
ISBN13:9780803297982
Release Date:September 1997
Publisher:Bison Books
Length:272 Pages
Weight:0.75 lbs.
Dimensions:0.7" x 5.5" x 8.3"
Customer Reviews
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This is a fantastic (literally) book!
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 25 years ago
I reviewed this book for a magazine when it first appeared. I gave it an all thumbs and fingers up review. I've reread it several times since then and it only gets better. Roger Welsch has written something that goes to the very heart of Native American religion, and done so in a way that is neither dismissive nor sappy. He is bang-up, dead-on, exactly right in his approach. I've used this book in some of the university classes I teach. Once the students understand that we're progressing backward through time, they have no problems. It's especially helpful in providing a background for discussing the whole repatriation of objects issue.
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