Walking Thunder: Dine Medicine Woman (Profiles in Healing series)
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Format: Hardcover
From: Leete'S Island Books
Pub. Date: March 2001
From: Leete'S Island Books
Pub. Date: March 2001
Product Details:
Catalog: Book
Release Date: 2001-04-01
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Pages: 200
Ean: 9780918172303
Isbn: 0918172306
Catalog: Book
Release Date: 2001-04-01
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Pages: 200
Ean: 9780918172303
Isbn: 0918172306
ABOUT THE BOOK
EDITORIAL REVIEW
A traditional Diné (Navajo) medicine woman, Walking Thunder, tells her life story and describes her healing methods using native plants, sand paintings, and other medicinal ways in this first-person account. As a practitioner of the peyote ceremony, she shares her indigenous understanding of the world of spirits evoked by this botanical sacrament. Photographs illustrate the ceremonies and ritual practices and the accompanying CD features traditional Diné storytelling as well as sacred songs to evoke the experience of Walking Thunder's life and healing.
USER REVIEWS
"This amazing woman has shown much of what is denied to most outsiders. Her information helped me understand many traditions that I have been wondering about.
She explains the whys of traditions. I found myself reading her words aloud with a Navajo accent as I became engrosed in this book. Her pictoral history of the last century of Dine gives us a look into the real lives of the people."
~ Written on 2003-05-28
She explains the whys of traditions. I found myself reading her words aloud with a Navajo accent as I became engrosed in this book. Her pictoral history of the last century of Dine gives us a look into the real lives of the people."
~ Written on 2003-05-28
"Walking Thunder immerses herself as a healer and delights in being human. Her rich heritage, generous heart and possessing a full understanding that she is the vessel the holy ones work through, makes this an "enriching read." Written wisdom is not the same as shared lived wisdom. She shares many lessons from her teachers and her abundant respect of Mother Earth is humbling. Less you think all medicine people are humorless, her laughter and pranks can be heard throughout the book. Walking Thunder is respectful of her culture, elders, family, friends, and Mother Earth. You can experience this from her voice on the compact disc that is included with the book. For those who want to further their appreciation of medicine work, while deepening their understanding of The People, this is the book for you."
~ Written on 2002-10-17
~ Written on 2002-10-17