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I'm not really sure how we first came in contact with Adrian G. Torres. But almost from the first letter that Indian Life received, we knew that this prisoner was different. You see, Adrian, while a prisoner in a correctional institution, has found a way to thrive through writing. The author has a ministry through his website Friends of Adrian.com, where he writes a regular blog. Several of his blogs have appeared in Indian Life under the title "The Zoo Cage Prophet," a name...
RAPID CITY, SD-"We found the perfect Dan," said independent filmmaker Steven Lewis Simpson in describing how he managed to bring the book Neither Wolf Nor Dog to the movie screen. Simpson meant that the key to realization of the picture was Cheyenne River Lakota elder David Beautiful Bald Eagle, cast in the role of Dan in the soon-to-be-completed fiction film by the same name as the book. A producer-director and cinematographer from Scotland, Simpson spoke at a presentation...
Prompters to Life Trade Paper 218 pages Review by Carla McKay If you have cancer or know someone who does, this book is for you and your friend. Part narrative, reflection, and primer, this book has wit, wisdom, romance and passion. It has laughter while acknowledging the painful struggle to find life and hope in the midst of this trying journey. Struck twice with colorectal cancer, he is a survivor who won't let his age or disease hold him back from enjoying life. Dennis has...
Xulon Press, Paper 359 pages Review by Carla McKay This is the true story of Craig, Chippewa, and LaDonna Smith, Navajo, and LaDonna's brother Zane, Navajo, facing horrendous trauma and trials, the result of a horrific near-fatal accident at Mile Marker 313 along Interstate 25 in northern New Mexico. All three escaped death but suffered multiple life-threatening injuries requiring multiple surgeries. Craig and LaDonna share their personal pain in their own words and include...
"I am very doubtful whether history shows us one example of a man who, having stepped outside traditional morality and attained power, has used that power benevolently." -C.S. Lewis I was raised in an alcoholic home with all the disadvantages that environment brings with it. I was raised to believe that religion was a crutch for weak people and that all Christians were hypocrites. By the age of forty, after attaining all that the world says should make you happy and...
by Shamin Brown Goldrock Press ISBN 978-1-927410-17-2 Paper 65 pages $19.95 Shamin Brown was a straight A high school student and excelled in athletics. By the following year, she was an addict who was broken in body and spirit. This book is the Shamin's story of the first five years of her recovery. She does this in a journal format with entries written over this five-year period. I found it sometimes painfully hard and heartbreaking to read but it made me understand what...
SANTA FE, NM (ANS)-There's only one Native American writer that has ever won the Pulitzer Prize for literature: N. Scott Momaday. He was bestowed America's highest literary honor in 1969 for his book, House Made of Dawn. Born in 1934 in Lawton, Oklahoma to a writer mother, Natachee, and an artist father, Al, Momaday is Kiowa and Cherokee. Momaday received his Ph.D. from Stanford University and has received over 20 honorary degrees. Considered by many scholars to be the...
Gold Rock Press This is a very different book not only because it's for kids but because it's been put together with the help of kids. It's about a boy named John who has a birthday. It seems as if everyone has forgotten his birthday-family, friends, and his teacher. Or did they? Samuel Parmar is a Grade 3 teacher Jack River School in Norway House, Manitoba. His kids were the inspiration for his book because they told him about their birthdays. The bonus is that Mr. Parmar's...
by Randy S. Woodley Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company 2012 Trade Soft Cover 178 pages Randy Woodley in his theological book Shalom and the Community of Creation sets out to help everyone reconnect to creation in the way God intended for us. The Garden of Eden, and the goodness of creation, are crucial ideas if we are to understand how we can live a life of shalom (xvii). If we are not at rest with creation, we are somewhat out of touch with God's goodness through his...
by Deborah Ellis 253 pages, Hardcover $15.95 Groundwood Books / House of Anansi Looks Like Daylight is a very interesting book because it gives readers a glimpse into the world of First Nations young people. The author interviewed youth in Canada and the United States between the ages of 11 and 18 and asked for their perspective and thoughts regarding how they see the world. The stories range from heartbreak to hope for the future. Here's an excerpt: "My mother says there is...
Looking for Love Taken from the chapter “Looking for Love” in the book Keepers of the Faith: Five Native Women Share Their Stories by Debra Fieguth. Canada’s Arctic can seem cold and desolate to people who make their home in the South, but to those whose way of life is rooted in the tundra and snow, it’s warm, familiar and secure. On May 28, 1954, Lizzie Epoo was born into an Inuit family on Patterson Island. It was nearing summer, and since the family was nomadic, Lizzie...
TUCSON, AZ—Despite decades of research on the many health challenges facing Native Americans, no book has taken a comprehensive look at the health of Native American women—until now. “Health and Social Issues of Native American Women” is co-authored by UA Department of Family and Community Medicine researchers Drs. Jennie Joe and Francine Gachupin, both Native American, as are 15 of the other 16 researchers whose articles are included in the book Researchers Jennie R. Joe, Ph...
Growing Up North By Morris Bradburn iUniverse 2011 170 pages Hardcover Here is an exciting account of Morris Bradburn growing up in the isolated community of Oxford House, Manitoba. Bradburn writes that everyone spoke Cree. Here’s some of what makes this book exciting. “I had nearly aborted my attempted dive when I remembered the laughter of the big boys when I’d suggested that I could dive from the rocks like them. I decided I was going to do this and surprise those big b...
WestBow Paper 147 pages ISBN: 978-1-4627-1648 This is the personal story of Darlene McKenna. Because of what the author went through, this was not easy to read but it was the truth. As Traci Carmichael writes: “McKenna…does not sugar coat the truth and she brings a vivid imagery to her writing that places you in her life.” At first, she believed in Satan’s lies (the bad guy). Life was not easy due to choices Darlene made. When she chose to follow Jesus, life was not on easy...
MINNEAPOLIS, MN—Author Louise Erdrich won the National Book Award for The Round House, her look into criminal justice issues in Indian Country. Erdrich is a member of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians in North Dakota. Her novel is based on a fictional reservation, also in North Dakota, where a woman’s assault raises jurisdictional and other issues. Erdrich accepted the award on November 14 in New York City. “This is a book that talks about the real situation in th...
Christian Focus 2002 Paper 384 pages Review by Carla McKay This is the true story of Frank and Marie Drown who went to Ecuador to work with the Shuara, known as headhunters because they were known for shrinking the heads of their enemies, using it as a talisman for power. Once they became Jesus’ followers (those who have bowed the knee), the practice of head hunting stopped. The most interesting part of this story is that Frank Drown was one of the men who found the five m...
WestBow Press 2012 Paper 118 pages Review by Carla McKay This book is about death and loss but it is not depressing. The author lost her 22-year-old son Gary. It’s hard to lose someone you love who made an impact in your life. Death is something we cannot control and this book shows us that we are not in control but God is. If we are dependent on Him, He will help us in sorting it all out. This book is easy to read and it’s honest. The bonus is that it’s illustrated with...
“Remove me from time, leave me in space and free my dreams. My ear to the water, listening to the sublime chant. Let the breathing Sun stir the shadows. Another year upon the horizon, something new, waits in time.” The opening lines of the poem, “Remove”, featured in Larry Spotted Crow Mann’s recent book, Tales from the Whispering Basket, offer an intriguing description of Mann’s writings. This unique text allows the reader to transcend time in order to join the author in h...
By D. Peter Macleod Douglas & McIntyre Paper 96 pages We all know the saying that there is more than one side to every story. Well, this is certainly true of the war known as the War of 1812. According to D. Peter Macleod, there are four sides to this story. "For Canadians, the war was about American invasions. For Americans, it was about standing up to Britain. For the British, it was an irritating sideshow to the Napoleonic Wars raging in Europe. And for the Native Americans...
By Roxanna Green with Jerry B. Jenkins Worthy Publishing Paper 256 pages This is a true story that will warm your heart. You may remember the tragic shooting last year in Tucson, Arizona, that took the lives of seven people including a little girl named Christina-Taylor Green. This book is about Christina who was shot and killed on that tragic day as told by her mother with the help of New York Times bestselling author Jerry Jenkins. Christina's life was full of activities...
