When the Night Bird Sings
Edition: Reissue edition
Publisher: Council Oak Books
Published: May 1, 1999
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 268
ISBN-13: 9781571780782
Subjects: Alternative belief systems; Biography: general; Ethnic studies; Social life and customs; Ethnic Studies - Native American Studies; Native Americans - Plains; Biography & Autobiography; Inspirational; Biography/Autobiography; USA; Hifler, Joyce; Native Americans; Women; INDIAN WOMEN_NORTH AMERICA; INDIANS OF NORTH AMERICA_BIOGRAPHY; INDIANS OF NORTH AMERICA_SOCIAL LIFE AND CUSTOMS; Social Science / Native American Studies; WOMEN_UNITED STATES_BIOGRAPHY; Literary; Biography; Cherokee Indians; Cherokee women
Description: Joyce Sequichie Hifler tells the story of her own childhood in the Oklahoma hills of Cherokee Country. A gracefully written story of contemporary Native American life and spirituality, When the Night Bird Sings soars with deep feeling and trademark Hifler insight and compassion.

From a family so poor that an eight-dollar monthly check was a godsend, Hifler shares the profound lessons she learned from her extended family of elders and from the Great Spirit. The richness of the landscape is woven through the book in a poignant tribute to nature and to the universal magic of childhood.