To you we shall return
Subtitle: lessons about our planet from the Lakota
By: Joseph M. Marshall III.
Publisher: Sterling Pub. Co.; Sterling Ethos
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 192
ISBN-13: 9781402736087
Subjects: Marshall, Joseph, -- 1945-; Dakota Indians -- Social life and customs; Indian philosophy -- North America; Nature -- Effect of human beings on -- North America; Environmental protection -- North America; Environmental responsibility -- North America; Sustainability -- North America; Conduct of life; Harmony (Philosophy); North America -- Environmental conditions
Description: Combines personal anecdotes, history, and Lakota tales to present a meditation on mankind's connection to the land and our need to love and respect the Earth's resources.
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: The hunger; title: The giant is growing; title: pt. 1. Remembrances; title: Smoking earth; title: The man who plants seeds; title: Icewinskas!; title: Look back and remember; title: The sliver of the new Moon; title: Fences; title: Buffalo woman; title: pt. 2. To you we shall return; title: The atomic age; title: Drums; title: Away from the village; title: If only the land could talk; title: The invention of the arrow; title: Afterword; title: When we return to you.