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Available
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Publication
Viking Adult (2006), Hardcover, 368 pages
Description
Profiles sixteen locations of sacred relevance to Native Americans, explaining how each site reflects the diversity of a unique Native American culture, including the Rainbow Canyon in Arizona and the high country of northwestern California.
User reviews
LibraryThing member wesh
A thousand things could've gone wrong with a book like this, but none of them did. Nabokov's treatment of native spirituality is deeply understanding and sensitive. His telling of the history of these peoples and places –rooted in Western history as they must be in the same way the history of a
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hole in the ground is inextricably tied to the bulldozer that dug it– is even-handed, as disturbing as an honest assessment of this history can sometimes be for Westerners. A good, quick, thought-provoking read. Show Less
Original publication date
2006
Physical description
368 p.; 9.1 inches
ISBN
0670034320 / 9780670034321