The Hollow Tree : Fighting Addiction with Traditional Native Healing / Copy 2

by Herb Nabigon

Paper Book, 2006

Status

Checked out

Call number

362.292 N33 2006 c.2

Call number

362.292 N33 2006 c.2

Description

Before discovering native healing methods, Herb Nabigon could not imagine a life without alcohol. His powerful autobiography, The Hollow Tree, tells the story of his struggle to overcome addiction with the help of the spiritual teachings and brotherly love of his elders. Nabigon had spent much of his life wrestling with self-destructive impulses, feelings of inferiority and resentment, and alcohol abuse when Eddie Bellerose, an Elder, introduced him to the ancient Cree teachings. With the help of healing methods drawn from the Four Sacred Directions, the refuge and revitalization offered by the sweat lodge, and native cultural practices such as the use of the pipe Nabigon was able to find sobriety. The Hollow Tree is one person's testament to the power of indigenous culture to heal. Herb Nabigon's healing journey guided him to a life of kindness, honesty, courage, and humility.… (more)

Publication

Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press, c2006.

Language

ISBN

9780773531321
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