by Joseph M. Marshall
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''This work by the Lakota philosopher is a meditation on our connection to the land and an exhortation to respect it. Marshall combines personal history, tribal history, and metaphysics with modern analogies and commentary. His message is best captured by the Lakota ethos that the people belong to the land, not the other way round, and that the land is a resource like the air, that no one can own. His overarching point is that the earth can be boundlessly generous if we can learn to accept its gifts. Marshall delivers the book himself in a measured, deliberate style. His reading is paced well and expresses subtle emotion.'' --AudioFile''Soft-spoken, matter-of-fact, and firm in his delivery, the author Joseph M. Marshall, III, a Lakota Sioux, chastises Euro-Americans (whites) for our degradation of Nature. Their land and its bounty of gifts have always been the focus of Native American lives from the frigid far north to the southwestern desert. He describes how a variety of Native American nations have successfully adapted to every kind of terrain and treated their homelands with respect and affection. The Manifest Destiny tactics of the white-controlled United States government uprooted them cruelly. Interspersed among his historical comments are his own memories of growing up happily and simply on the Rosebud reservation without electricity or automobile transport and savoring the wise ways of his grandparents.'' --SoundCommentary.com
JOSEPH M. MARSHALL III was born and raised on the Rosebud Sioux Reservation and holds a Ph.D. from the reservation university, which he helped to establish. The award-winning author of ten books, he has also contributed to various publications and written several screenplays. His first language is Lakota, he handcrafts primitive Lakota bows and arrows, and he is a specialist in wilderness survival. His work as a cultural and historical consultant can be seen and heard on Turner Network Television and the Dreamworks epic television miniseries ''Into the West.'' He has won an Audie Award, Earphones Award, ''Nammy'' Award, and was named Best American Indian Fiction Writer by True West magazine in 2009.
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