The Price of a Gift: A Lakota Healer's Story
"The strength of humour, the medicine of talking the right way, the art of listening and the gift of vision are the inner tools of Eagle Elk's gift of healing. In this book we follow the imagery of Eagle Elk's world" American Indian Quarterly "The life story of traditional Lakota healer Joseph Eagle Elk (1931-91), this book is a labour of love. Mohatt (a friend of Eagle Elk and a cross-cultural psychologist at Univ. of Alaska, Fairbanks) lived on the reservation from 1968 to 1983. His goal here is to elucidate how a healer becomes a healer and what constitutes his work, and he goes about it with a great deal of integrity, revealing ordinary trials and tribulations alongside spiritual growth and realisation... The book is recommended for all large Native American and cross-cultural psychology collections." Choice