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Seven Arrows
A heartbreaking story of victory, defeat, and of a spiritual search in a profane world, this is the story of Night Bear and his people. It is the tale of the land they cherish and the lives they hold sacred, lived until the enemy can no longer be stopped, and the dead have few left to weep for them.
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First published January 1, 1972
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February 14, 2014
Seven Arrowsis weird and difficult and interesting and you should read it and I don’t say that lightly.
It comes with a load of caveats. Seven Arrows is a book about Sundance, the relgion/philosophy of the native peoples of the Great Plains of North America, told by an (alleged) Cheyenne medicine man in the form of allegorical stories-within-stories. It twigs all of my instincts honed by writing in the field of Asian Studies, which remain skeptical of any book written in the early seventies that present a non-western culture as a better alternative to our own (since festishizing outside cultures for our own purposes is a variation of orientalism). Indeed, Storm has been called a “plastic shaman,” a term about which you can read a lengthy description on Wikipedia. It also twigs my Western Scholar skepticism of obscure narrative and language, a skepticism which suggests that such language exists to provide the form of profundity without the substance. And even though I ultimately loved the book, I remain skeptical of the idealized version of Sundance it paints. I have trouble imagining proud Native Americans riding around the plains hardcore psycho-analyzing each other at the drop of a hat. (A cursory google search of the author reveals some severe discrepancies is the author’s claim to be Cheyenne, and some serious objections on the part of the Cheyenne Nation to his claims to represent them in anyway, and to the idea that Seven Arrows in any way actually represents their culture).
That said, I found Seven Arrows to be genuinely moving. The first two thirds or so was a real slog, but somewhere in the process of reading, all of the allegorical meanings of the stories start to be saturated in the reader’s mind, and you start to see what the author is getting at. By the end, nature of the allegory is enough to provoke an emotional response. You could read this book several times to figure out what the hell is going on, but the point is to experience it. It has some really brilliant small details. I particularly enjoyed the reactions to Christianity, which consistently baffles the Plains protagonists. My favorite stroke of brilliance involved a Jesuit priest speaking to one of the narrators in broken Cheyenne, rendered in English in the grotesque patois of the 50s movie Indian. “Geesis have great medicine. You join him get heap big power.” The pictures were also pretty hardcore, with a great seventies emphasis on black-and-white sad Native American faces in profile. There were also some great color depictions of medicine shields, which in the novel are personal symbolic identifiers used to psychoanalyze passersby at a distance. It’s also thematically complex, moving away from the “white men bad, native Americans good” narrative that you would expect from this kind of novel.
Ultimately, this is a work of real genius that is dramatically undermined by the illegitimacy of its author. Though I enjoyed it, Storm’s blatant misrepresentation of his own authority and subsequent appropriation of Native American themes for his own purposes, presenting a distorted image of Plains Nations belief systems in the process is unacceptable. So while I recommend reading this book for the experience, make sure you acknowledge that it tells you more about what hippie charlatans in the seventies wanted Sundance to be like than what Sundance is actually like.
It comes with a load of caveats. Seven Arrows is a book about Sundance, the relgion/philosophy of the native peoples of the Great Plains of North America, told by an (alleged) Cheyenne medicine man in the form of allegorical stories-within-stories. It twigs all of my instincts honed by writing in the field of Asian Studies, which remain skeptical of any book written in the early seventies that present a non-western culture as a better alternative to our own (since festishizing outside cultures for our own purposes is a variation of orientalism). Indeed, Storm has been called a “plastic shaman,” a term about which you can read a lengthy description on Wikipedia. It also twigs my Western Scholar skepticism of obscure narrative and language, a skepticism which suggests that such language exists to provide the form of profundity without the substance. And even though I ultimately loved the book, I remain skeptical of the idealized version of Sundance it paints. I have trouble imagining proud Native Americans riding around the plains hardcore psycho-analyzing each other at the drop of a hat. (A cursory google search of the author reveals some severe discrepancies is the author’s claim to be Cheyenne, and some serious objections on the part of the Cheyenne Nation to his claims to represent them in anyway, and to the idea that Seven Arrows in any way actually represents their culture).
That said, I found Seven Arrows to be genuinely moving. The first two thirds or so was a real slog, but somewhere in the process of reading, all of the allegorical meanings of the stories start to be saturated in the reader’s mind, and you start to see what the author is getting at. By the end, nature of the allegory is enough to provoke an emotional response. You could read this book several times to figure out what the hell is going on, but the point is to experience it. It has some really brilliant small details. I particularly enjoyed the reactions to Christianity, which consistently baffles the Plains protagonists. My favorite stroke of brilliance involved a Jesuit priest speaking to one of the narrators in broken Cheyenne, rendered in English in the grotesque patois of the 50s movie Indian. “Geesis have great medicine. You join him get heap big power.” The pictures were also pretty hardcore, with a great seventies emphasis on black-and-white sad Native American faces in profile. There were also some great color depictions of medicine shields, which in the novel are personal symbolic identifiers used to psychoanalyze passersby at a distance. It’s also thematically complex, moving away from the “white men bad, native Americans good” narrative that you would expect from this kind of novel.
Ultimately, this is a work of real genius that is dramatically undermined by the illegitimacy of its author. Though I enjoyed it, Storm’s blatant misrepresentation of his own authority and subsequent appropriation of Native American themes for his own purposes, presenting a distorted image of Plains Nations belief systems in the process is unacceptable. So while I recommend reading this book for the experience, make sure you acknowledge that it tells you more about what hippie charlatans in the seventies wanted Sundance to be like than what Sundance is actually like.
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September 23, 2015"The Mouse, as you remember, perceives only whatever is very close to it. The teaching here is that when we look too closely within our Introspection, we may sit too much within the circle of ourselves to perceive anything clearly. To perceive the circle of the West, we must first move outside of it."
Seven Arrows is a stunningly powerful work, with gifts that will elevate and subsume the reader.
Seven Arrows is a stunningly powerful work, with gifts that will elevate and subsume the reader.
September 15, 2011
One of my favorites! I have read it several times and will read it again. Why can't current cultures be as civilized as the native Americans were.
July 10, 2014
No one book ever gave me so much knowledge into myself and the world inside and outside myself as Seven Arrows!
February 28, 2019
I picked this book up in the early 1990s. Some of you may remember the early 1990s. People were crawling out of the woodwork to talk about their recovery from this, that and the other thing, what horrible childhoods they had, their addictions to any and everything and how this guru or that belief system helped them discover themselves.
One popular self-discovery method was to immerse oneself in native americanism. It was closely followed by celticism. I think that when native americanism faded, celticism took over. Historians may recognize this as the echo through time, the resurgence of what was Spiritualism in the late 19th-early 20th century, of the rush to Buddhist and Hindu, Yoga, Pyramids, Chariots of the Gods and martial arts in the late 1960s-early 1970s, and who knows what will come in the 21st century (except that we seem to be overdue).
Back to this book. It is a book of its time. There are several "teaching" stories threaded within the main story. I'm guessing they come from the author's Native American tradition although you can find similar tales throughout the world (ala Joseph Campbell who was also popular at this time).
Is it an interesting read? There's some beautiful artwork in there. Beautiful photography. The stories themselves...too many years an anthropologist has inured me to much of what amounts to modern folklore. There's also a time jump that comes unexpectedly (to me).
Would I read it again? Hmm...the judge is out on that one. I'll keep it around because one never knows, but after my first read I'd think not.
Should you read it? Hmm...what would be your reason? An interest in cultural anthropology? The stories are too westernized. Detail for a story you're working on? Too one-sided, unless that's what you're after. You decide.
One popular self-discovery method was to immerse oneself in native americanism. It was closely followed by celticism. I think that when native americanism faded, celticism took over. Historians may recognize this as the echo through time, the resurgence of what was Spiritualism in the late 19th-early 20th century, of the rush to Buddhist and Hindu, Yoga, Pyramids, Chariots of the Gods and martial arts in the late 1960s-early 1970s, and who knows what will come in the 21st century (except that we seem to be overdue).
Back to this book. It is a book of its time. There are several "teaching" stories threaded within the main story. I'm guessing they come from the author's Native American tradition although you can find similar tales throughout the world (ala Joseph Campbell who was also popular at this time).
Is it an interesting read? There's some beautiful artwork in there. Beautiful photography. The stories themselves...too many years an anthropologist has inured me to much of what amounts to modern folklore. There's also a time jump that comes unexpectedly (to me).
Would I read it again? Hmm...the judge is out on that one. I'll keep it around because one never knows, but after my first read I'd think not.
Should you read it? Hmm...what would be your reason? An interest in cultural anthropology? The stories are too westernized. Detail for a story you're working on? Too one-sided, unless that's what you're after. You decide.
May 13, 2009
Just beginning, very excited.
About a third of the way through, totally captivating.
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I just finished and I most cedrtainly enjoyed this book. The storytelling is incredible and the Teachings are stories i look forward to sharing with my children someday.
One thing that impressed me throughout this book was the discussion and digestion of experiences and issues, rites of passage, and confusing subjects we still encounter today, and at times, with much less wisdom. For example: the account of Night Bear engaging in a sexual relationship with his mother confused me and completely interrupted my perception of the story as a whole. My immediate reaction to this part was to drop the book on the floor and moan in disgust, which caught my husband's attention and prompted him to ask, "What is the matter with you?"
As the context of the story and the book as a whole suggest, the Teachings can be difficult, but there is wisdom to be found in every experience and in the experiences of others.
About a third of the way through, totally captivating.
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I just finished and I most cedrtainly enjoyed this book. The storytelling is incredible and the Teachings are stories i look forward to sharing with my children someday.
One thing that impressed me throughout this book was the discussion and digestion of experiences and issues, rites of passage, and confusing subjects we still encounter today, and at times, with much less wisdom. For example: the account of Night Bear engaging in a sexual relationship with his mother confused me and completely interrupted my perception of the story as a whole. My immediate reaction to this part was to drop the book on the floor and moan in disgust, which caught my husband's attention and prompted him to ask, "What is the matter with you?"
As the context of the story and the book as a whole suggest, the Teachings can be difficult, but there is wisdom to be found in every experience and in the experiences of others.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
May 19, 2011
Amazing stories, wonderful teachings, a book I would have recommended had I not learned about how the author, who is not Native American, obtained those stories. One could say the cultural inaccuracies make the work distinct from the Traditional Cheyenne stories....I'm sure his legal team tried that defense.
March 28, 2009
one of my favorites from long ago
September 2, 2009
This was a really cool read -- explaining the medicine wheel through folklore, metaphors, photos, artwork, etc. Lots of Jungian themes that made it even more interesting to read after finishing Memories, Dreams, Reflections.
January 28, 2013
A startling weaving of narratives. Despite being written by a non-native, there is a tremendous spirit to it.
April 29, 2020
Hyemeyohsts Storm’s 1972 book Seven Arrows is a very unusual work, a cross between historical fiction and an exegesis of the religious beliefs of the Native American people we now think of as being the tribes of the northern high plains of the United States, specifically the Cheyenne, the Sioux, and the Crow. Storm takes pains at the beginning to provide the names these tribes used for themselves: the Painted Arrow, the Brother People, and the Little Black Eagle. (These names may not be in the same order as the first list.) The only book in my experience that similarly combines a historical record with religious philosophy is the Judeo-Christian Bible. However, Seven Arrows weaves the two together, while the Bible’s historical parts are largely in the Old Testament.
Seven Arrows begins with a series of short pieces which introduce the reader to essential religious concepts: the Medicine Wheel, the Circle, and the Seven Arrows. “Medicine,” in the usage of the Native peoples, means far more than the limited way it’s used among whitepeople, as Storm calls those of European descent. I admit I have not even begun to really grasp the full depth and meaning of the term.
The circle is a fundamental symbolic figure, also endowed with many deep and varied meanings. The seven arrows point to the four cardinal directions, up, down, and to the individual. The cardinal directions in particular have special and specific religious meanings and associated colors and animals: North—wisdom, white, buffalo; East—illumination, yellow, eagle; South—innocence, green, mouse; and West—introspection, black, and bear. Taken together, these form the philosophical core of these peoples’ beliefs, but to say that only scratches the surface.
The bulk of the book tells the stories of people of these tribes as they deal with the encroachment of whitepeople, told from the perspective of the Native people themselves. Storm could have taken a polemical approach, especially given when the book was written. Instead he tells the story simply, revealing the conflicts within and among the tribes as they try to understand and deal with this new, powerful, and technologically superior force, which has so upset their previous way of life. Some argue for sticking to their peaceful ways, the Way of the Medicine Wheel and the Sun Dance, while others argue that force must be met by force.
Storm employs a clever technique when describing conversations between his people and whitemen. It’s the whites whose speech is represented in pidgin dialect, which from the Native point of view, makes sense. It’s the whitemen who are speaking the natives’ languages incorrectly, when they do, and the dialect reflects how the Natives hear what the whites are saying. To take one example, “Jesus” is written as “Geessis.”
Storm uses the concept of Teachings to introduce the religious elements of the book. While these three tribes spoke different languages, they shared a common sign language, so many times Storm’s protagonist of the moment or teacher will tell a story to other characters by signing it. These stories are always parables, and Storm capitalizes important Words to indicate to the Reader that they have special Meaning, beyond not only what appears on the Surface of the Story but across the Peoples’ entire religion and Teachings. This technique allows him to introduce the philosophical elements of the story without creating jarring interruptions.
The book is lavishly illustrated, with over a hundred archival black-and-white photographs of the Native people and of the animals that are important at each moment of the story. It also includes well over a dozen color illustrations of various shields. These circular objects were hung on the outside of a family’s lodge and served to identify the residents. They also had deep philosophical meaning, as they represented the man’s “true” name, the one he had learned during his “Spirit Walk,” a kind of solo coming-of-age exploration each boy (and perhaps girl) went on as they approached adulthood. The cynic in me says these photographs and illustrations were publisher Ballantine’s way to pad the length of the book, but they do integrate with the story, so this interpretation may be both wrong and unfair.
The book ends awkwardly, without truly finishing. That’s fitting, as the story of the Native people and the whitemen is unfinished too. In the final scene, the last protagonist, Green Fire Mouse, now an old man, is taking his grandchildren fishing. He and they now speak English, and he drives a pick-up truck. The children are being taught Christianity, which Green Fire Mouse has not adopted. But he seems to have accommodated himself to his new reality. Accommodated himself, nothing more.
I originally purchased this book as one of several that were going to be texts for a Native American Literature class. The class was cancelled due to lack of interest—a sad irony given that it was at a university in Oklahoma—but I’m glad I decided to keep the book. Seven Arrows provides a fascinating look inside a culture which is, to the whiteman, foreign, even while being all around us. It is religious without being heavy-handed, and the Teachings often only hint at the deeper meanings they hold under their surfaces.
Highly recommended.
Seven Arrows begins with a series of short pieces which introduce the reader to essential religious concepts: the Medicine Wheel, the Circle, and the Seven Arrows. “Medicine,” in the usage of the Native peoples, means far more than the limited way it’s used among whitepeople, as Storm calls those of European descent. I admit I have not even begun to really grasp the full depth and meaning of the term.
The circle is a fundamental symbolic figure, also endowed with many deep and varied meanings. The seven arrows point to the four cardinal directions, up, down, and to the individual. The cardinal directions in particular have special and specific religious meanings and associated colors and animals: North—wisdom, white, buffalo; East—illumination, yellow, eagle; South—innocence, green, mouse; and West—introspection, black, and bear. Taken together, these form the philosophical core of these peoples’ beliefs, but to say that only scratches the surface.
The bulk of the book tells the stories of people of these tribes as they deal with the encroachment of whitepeople, told from the perspective of the Native people themselves. Storm could have taken a polemical approach, especially given when the book was written. Instead he tells the story simply, revealing the conflicts within and among the tribes as they try to understand and deal with this new, powerful, and technologically superior force, which has so upset their previous way of life. Some argue for sticking to their peaceful ways, the Way of the Medicine Wheel and the Sun Dance, while others argue that force must be met by force.
Storm employs a clever technique when describing conversations between his people and whitemen. It’s the whites whose speech is represented in pidgin dialect, which from the Native point of view, makes sense. It’s the whitemen who are speaking the natives’ languages incorrectly, when they do, and the dialect reflects how the Natives hear what the whites are saying. To take one example, “Jesus” is written as “Geessis.”
Storm uses the concept of Teachings to introduce the religious elements of the book. While these three tribes spoke different languages, they shared a common sign language, so many times Storm’s protagonist of the moment or teacher will tell a story to other characters by signing it. These stories are always parables, and Storm capitalizes important Words to indicate to the Reader that they have special Meaning, beyond not only what appears on the Surface of the Story but across the Peoples’ entire religion and Teachings. This technique allows him to introduce the philosophical elements of the story without creating jarring interruptions.
The book is lavishly illustrated, with over a hundred archival black-and-white photographs of the Native people and of the animals that are important at each moment of the story. It also includes well over a dozen color illustrations of various shields. These circular objects were hung on the outside of a family’s lodge and served to identify the residents. They also had deep philosophical meaning, as they represented the man’s “true” name, the one he had learned during his “Spirit Walk,” a kind of solo coming-of-age exploration each boy (and perhaps girl) went on as they approached adulthood. The cynic in me says these photographs and illustrations were publisher Ballantine’s way to pad the length of the book, but they do integrate with the story, so this interpretation may be both wrong and unfair.
The book ends awkwardly, without truly finishing. That’s fitting, as the story of the Native people and the whitemen is unfinished too. In the final scene, the last protagonist, Green Fire Mouse, now an old man, is taking his grandchildren fishing. He and they now speak English, and he drives a pick-up truck. The children are being taught Christianity, which Green Fire Mouse has not adopted. But he seems to have accommodated himself to his new reality. Accommodated himself, nothing more.
I originally purchased this book as one of several that were going to be texts for a Native American Literature class. The class was cancelled due to lack of interest—a sad irony given that it was at a university in Oklahoma—but I’m glad I decided to keep the book. Seven Arrows provides a fascinating look inside a culture which is, to the whiteman, foreign, even while being all around us. It is religious without being heavy-handed, and the Teachings often only hint at the deeper meanings they hold under their surfaces.
Highly recommended.
April 3, 2022
Feeling and mind: the true nature of humankind
August 3, 2017
Doubts about the cultural accuracy or authenticity of the author aside, this is a book that makes one think, and that one must read several times for everything to soak in, and even then, more will come over time. Like seeing the symbolism in other people's so-called Fairy Tales, every story can be seen for it's symbolisms, and this gives a very very pluralistic way of viewing the world, as with the complex imagery and symbolism of the Shield Brotherhood and multiple names.
Very saddening to see what human nature can do to us, and very very surprising at first, shocking even, to see such different attitudes toward sexuality, and especially to learn of a Buffalo wanting to give, and that therfore a woman we would see as a slut/harlot/prostitute could actually be seen alternatively as someone who wants so much to give and to heal, but is taken advantage of or merely used by those who do not understand. As someone years ago described her understanding of the Sacred Temple Prostitutes, as healers rather than mere ... "pros" as my dad used to say.
This book was as hard to read as Dee Brown's Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West. Particularly as a mixed-blood Cherokee, according to my adoptive Great-Grandmother.
Reading the book Seven Arrows by Hyemeyohsts Storm
P 7 like in Babylon 5 where it they say it's the universe trying to understand itself
P 10 finally someone who wouldn't tell me to stop asking so damned many questions!
P 62: Wow. Confronted with what appears to be a new Power that rewards killing it would make sense to kill them. So, Given that point of view I'm almost surprized that they tried to make peace at all.
P. 106: same thing the British did to the Cherokee in 1769. The Memoirs of Lt. Henry Timberlake: The Story of a Soldier, Adventurer, and Emissary to the Cherokees, 1756-1765
P 243 Of people get sick from not caring. Interesting.
P 264. Wow. Four years banishment for being abusive towards another person. Excellent.
Sigh...
Shira
3rd of August, 12017 HE
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holocen...)
Very saddening to see what human nature can do to us, and very very surprising at first, shocking even, to see such different attitudes toward sexuality, and especially to learn of a Buffalo wanting to give, and that therfore a woman we would see as a slut/harlot/prostitute could actually be seen alternatively as someone who wants so much to give and to heal, but is taken advantage of or merely used by those who do not understand. As someone years ago described her understanding of the Sacred Temple Prostitutes, as healers rather than mere ... "pros" as my dad used to say.
This book was as hard to read as Dee Brown's Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West. Particularly as a mixed-blood Cherokee, according to my adoptive Great-Grandmother.
Reading the book Seven Arrows by Hyemeyohsts Storm
P 7 like in Babylon 5 where it they say it's the universe trying to understand itself
P 10 finally someone who wouldn't tell me to stop asking so damned many questions!
P 62: Wow. Confronted with what appears to be a new Power that rewards killing it would make sense to kill them. So, Given that point of view I'm almost surprized that they tried to make peace at all.
P. 106: same thing the British did to the Cherokee in 1769. The Memoirs of Lt. Henry Timberlake: The Story of a Soldier, Adventurer, and Emissary to the Cherokees, 1756-1765
P 243 Of people get sick from not caring. Interesting.
P 264. Wow. Four years banishment for being abusive towards another person. Excellent.
Sigh...
Shira
3rd of August, 12017 HE
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holocen...)
April 17, 2018
This book, this author, spoke to me, to my heart. Stories that confirm the existence of the bond between man/woman and animal are precious to me. Hyemeyohsts's stories are wonderfully presented in a mix of history and campfire talk. The Jumping Mouse story is the best . . . I do so know the life in grasses, the treachery of the open prairie and the mountain, the fear of giving away my current vision. And the glory of yielding to total dedication to the mountain top . . . that is why I read books like this. And I do know something of the view there. And I do know something of the brotherhood of all beings that guide.
November 15, 2017
I read this book and loved it back in the 70s and just picked it up again this summer. It was as stunning and beautiful as I remembered. Seven Arrows tells the story of how the plains Indians were defeated in the late 1800s. But it is so much more. It also contains the most complete explanation of plains Indian religion that I have ever read. It is a beautiful book, both in its story and in its art. I love this book. It has a prominent place on my home bookshelf forever.
June 12, 2024
The entire book is a misrepresentation of Cheyenne teachings, and some of the information is entirely made up. It has been widely criticized by members of the Cheyenne community. And the author is a white man who pretended to be native.
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March 27, 2009Oral stories and teachings of the medicine wheel, representing a balanced life and balanced perspective. It is filled with great, symbolic stories you can return to often with renewed insight.
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February 6, 2024I picked this book up at the library as I thought it looked interesting, but on learning more about the author and the things that were faked I decided not to finish the book.
October 16, 2020
At first, this book didn't make sense to me - beginning with the story about "sneaking down to the water." And, then there was the issue of sophisticated English vocabulary - even when using sign language - put into the mouths of the India speakers. English is a Germanic language and when I read Spanish, a Latin language, I am very aware that language/linguistics is part of cultural thought. Translating from one language to another, changes syntax, conjugation, etc. I much prefer hearing things translated with their meaning explained from that language and not just what we might say in English. And why capitalize every other word in some stories and not in others? This all led me to feel the author was seriously embellishing. I didn't know anything about the author until I began reading the other reviews.
However, as I continued reading the book, I came to really enjoy it. The stories and explanations are Jungian and move as though someone is dreaming them, now here, now there. The explanations of the stories made me want to read the book again. And I want to ponder the concepts of the word "medicine." The artwork is beautiful. The photographs are intriguing, but do not have any context - names, places, dates, etc.
Now, as for the controversy about the author - too bad he felt he had to pretend to be of Cheyenne descent thru his father - his father was a native of Germany. I've seen this is other books written about indigenous people - the author pretends to be an insider and is just an opportunist. The book was published originally as nonfiction and now it is published as a novel.
However, as I continued reading the book, I came to really enjoy it. The stories and explanations are Jungian and move as though someone is dreaming them, now here, now there. The explanations of the stories made me want to read the book again. And I want to ponder the concepts of the word "medicine." The artwork is beautiful. The photographs are intriguing, but do not have any context - names, places, dates, etc.
Now, as for the controversy about the author - too bad he felt he had to pretend to be of Cheyenne descent thru his father - his father was a native of Germany. I've seen this is other books written about indigenous people - the author pretends to be an insider and is just an opportunist. The book was published originally as nonfiction and now it is published as a novel.
May 20, 2022
I read this book 20 years ago. It explained a strange experience I had in childhood where I felt a connection to everything and sent me on a journey that I am still walking today. Read with an open heart- ease your mind out of everything you may have been taught to believe, and see what this book reflects back to you about yourself.
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June 11, 2022Last time I looked into it, this book was quite divisive & for valid reasons. That being said, my father read it to me often as a kid, so it's in my heart for better or worse. I spent countless hours drawing the pictures from this book.
June 16, 2025
This is a favourite of mine because my mother read me stories from Seven Arrows when I was little. My favourite was the story of eagle mouse. Now that I'm an adult, I guess it might be a little different.
December 11, 2018
The stories date from ancient times and are full of multi-dimensional symbolism and mystic power. Read it and clutch it close to your heart.
April 1, 2019
The tale of 'Jumping Mouse' became a theme I have used for many years.
April 11, 2021
Amazing teachings. I always take many lessons with me about what it means to be human.
May 2, 2021
Deeply moving. Read this first in the 1970's. Great photos.
August 23, 2022
La saggezza indiana
February 26, 2024
Very well written. Gives history and also spiritual teachings in the form of stories.
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