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Available
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Publication
Harper & Row (1981), Edition: 1st, Paperback, 204 pages
Description
A fascinating Castaneda-like spiritual journey into the wilderness of Manitoba, where Lynn Andrews meets Agnes Whistling Elk, the Native American "heyoehkah," or shaman, who will change her life.
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LibraryThing member DavidRainey
When I first started reading Lynn Andrews, I thought how pretentios of her to think we would accept some rich white lady becoming a sort of saviour to the Native Peoples. It took a lot of introspection to finally come to terms with the underlying moral of the writing. You have to put aside the
Read the book as fiction, and try to get something out of the deeper message. Her books are simply written and quick to read. Enjoy them for what they are, and stop putting so much political correctness into them.
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feelings of race, etc., and just accept her writing as her way of telling the world how she came to own her feelings, the struggles she faces overcoming emotional dependancies, and how to live her life true to her beliefs. Her writings always emphasize the power of being a woman, and the responsibilities that woman have as givers of life. Her journeys involve Native Peoples, for sure. But she is not one dimensional in that regard. Other books travel to the Himilayas, Austrialia, and even the original tribes of England. So, people need to get over their feelings that she is using Native People's culture to sell books. Every race was a native at some point in the millenia. Read the book as fiction, and try to get something out of the deeper message. Her books are simply written and quick to read. Enjoy them for what they are, and stop putting so much political correctness into them.
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LibraryThing member David.A.Rainey
When I first started reading Lynn Andrews, I thought how pretentios of her to think we would accept some rich white lady becoming a sort of saviour to the Native Peoples. It took a lot of introspection to finally come to terms with the underlying moral of the writing. You have to put aside the
Read the book as fiction, and try to get something out of the deeper message. Her books are simply written and quick to read. Enjoy them for what they are, and stop putting so much political correctness into them.
Show More
feelings of race, etc., and just accept her writing as her way of telling the world how she came to own her feelings, the struggles she faces overcoming emotional dependancies, and how to live her life true to her beliefs. Her writings always emphasize the power of being a woman, and the responsibilities that woman have as givers of life. Her journeys involve Native Peoples, for sure. But she is not one dimensional in that regard. Other books travel to the Himilayas, Austrialia, and even the original tribes of England. So, people need to get over their feelings that she is using Native People's culture to sell books. Every race was a native at some point in the millenia. Read the book as fiction, and try to get something out of the deeper message. Her books are simply written and quick to read. Enjoy them for what they are, and stop putting so much political correctness into them.
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LibraryThing member melsmarsh
Interesting autobiographical account of a white woman who becomes a medicine woman. If I did not know and read so many New Age type books there is no way I would believe this was even close to being real. I am still doubting it.
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Physical description
204 p.; 7.7 inches
ISBN
0062500260 / 9780062500267
Local notes
ES - gift of Elin Schroeder (Anith)
Other editions
Medicine woman by Lynn V. Andrews (Paper Book)
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