To You We Shall Return: Lessons About Our Planet from the Lakota

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  1. Hardcover: 192 pages: 1 item
  2. Publisher: Sterling Ethos; 2010-10-05
  3. Author: Joseph M. Marshall III
  4. ISBN: 1402736088
  5. Sales Rank in Books: #296521

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“Grandmother, you who listen and hear all, you from whom all good things come…It is your embrace we feel when we return to you…”  This traditional Lakota prayer to Grandmother Earth opens Joseph Marshall III's newest work, a meditation on our connection to the land and an exhortation to respect it. Using a combination of personal anecdote, detailed history, and Lakota tales, Marshall takes us back to his childhood and shows us how we, too, can learn to love our planet.
Although he was educated in Euro-American schools, Marshall had the benefit of growing up with wise grandparents who taught him never to walk a path without knowing the trail from which he'd come: that the bow does not make the hunter, and above all, that the earth can be boundlessly generous-if we can learn to accept its gifts.

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4.8 out of 5 stars (5 customer reviews)

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars more important now than ever, July 13, 2011
Kevin D. Schoeninger - See all my reviews
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Giving voice to a Native American view of the world is important as we witness the effects of disregarding our connection with the natural world. Marshall reminds us that we live as part of the Earth and that we can gain great wisdom from observing and respecting her cycles. He shares stories from his Native upbringing that convey an alternative to our contemporary consumer worldview.


3 of 4 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Love to read his writings, March 19, 2011
E. Croft "White Wolf" (Massachusetts) - See all my reviews
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Always bringing insights on a better way to live. Offers a glimmer of hope that we will break this paradigm of greed and return to a more earth based way of harmony and balance.


5.0 out of 5 stars How lucky we are..., September 26, 2011
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...that Joseph Marshall chooses to share his thoughts, and Native American wisdom. His Grandfather would be proud, I suspect. Now, if we would only listen.

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