Product Description

Wisdomkeepers takes an extraordinary spirit-journey into the lives, minds, and natural-world philosophy of Native American spiritual Elders. With magnificent photographs and powerful words, the Wisdomkeepers share their innermost thoughts and feelings, their dreams and visions, their jokes and laughter, their healing remedies and apocalyptic prophecies and -- above all -- their humanity, which shines through every page of Wisdomkeepers. This is their book. They are the Elders, the Old Ones, the fragile repositories of sacred ways and natural wisdom going back millennia -- yet never more relevant than today.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #522170 in Books
• Published on: 2006-11-21
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 128 pages

From Library Journal
National Geographic photographer Wall and senior writer Arden journeyed to 20 Native American nations over the course of ten years in order to interview tribal elders. "They revealed their innermost thoughts and feelings, their dreams and visions, their healing remedies and apocalyptic prophecies, and, above all, their humanity." These tapes lack the visual appeal of the photographs and lose the breaks between subjects set off by subheads in the print version (Beyond Words, 1990). Moreover, the program lacks liner notes indicating who is being interviewed. Yet atmosphere is gained through sound effects and music interspersed with the narration of Michael Toms. The interview responses are read by Tammy Rahr of the Cayuga Nation and Ray and Fred Gonyea, members of the Beaver Clan of the Onondaga Nation. Recommended for libraries with Native American collections and those without the book.
- Susan Hamburger, Univ. of Virginia Lib., Charlottesville
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.

About the Author
Steve Wall, a distinguished American photojournalist, has worked in more than thirty countries over the past two decades, producing acclaimed magazine articles and photographic essays on more than one hundred subjects.

Harvey Arden is the author of several books. During his career as a senior writer for National Geographic, he produced some of the magazine’s most memorable stories including "John Muir’s Wild America".

Customer Reviews

Should be required reading
This is a book of incredible beauty - linguistically, visually, and spiritually. In an era which seems to skew more and more to the material and superficial, the Wisdomkeepers who are interviewed bring life and its challenges to the level of essence. Although I have walked in the daily company of Native Americans for more than fifty years, my understanding of the nobility of heritage and centered life grew immeasurably with the reading of every page. Anyone who passes this one up will be the lesser for doing so.

it's an experience,a journey,words cannot describe this book
I have recommended this book to anyone I know that is on a path of awakening and can hear the words with their heart.I have given this book as gifts numerous times, but I cannot find it anymore which greatly saddens me. I would love to turn the world on to this book as it so beautifully depicts our Native Americans - OUR indigenous people. This book does justice to out Native Americans which they so very much deserve. I do not know how to thank Steve Wall and Harvey Arden - they have touched my life with this richly textured, genuine and moving piece. No words can express the power behind the span of the eagle's wings, the moving wisdom of a redwood forest or the joy inside to which this book has brought me.

Wisdom
She:Kon (Sago)(Hello) To all who read this and hope you are all well. I personally know some of the Wisdom Keepers, Elders whose words are in this book and know them to be of good mind and person. I am Mohawk and Odawa and I come from upstate New York near some of the Reservations and I fully recommend this book for any person who needs to come back to the reality of the living world around them and bring them back to the basic relation between humankind and all the life that is on this earth and surrounds us in the cosmos.