To You We Shall Return: Lessons About Our Planet from the Lakota

by Joseph M. Marshall

Overview

The Lakota philosopher offers a personal account of how Native Americans adapted to the environment—and what we can learn from their example.

Part memoir, part cultural manifesto, To You We Shall Return offers a comparison between Euro-American and Native American approaches to the environment. Lakota philosopher Joseph M. Marshall discusses how native cultures adapted to fit within the environment, as opposed to changing it drastically to fit human needs and comforts. Through personal anecdote, detailed history, and Lakota tales, Marshall takes us back to his childhood and shows us how we, too, can learn to love our planet.

Suggesting a shift in our contemporary thinking, Marshall argues that relating to the earth in a less harmful way does not require a drastic change in lifestyles. Instead, revisiting the methods of adaptation and coexistence with the earth will foster a renewed respect which will ultimately benefit mankind as well.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781402783302
Publisher:	Union Square & Co.
Publication date:	11/22/2022
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	192
Sales rank:	1,050,342
File size:	846 KB

About the Author

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.

Table of Contents

Introduction: The Hunger 1

Part I Remembrances

1 Smoking Earth 14

2 The Man Who Plants Seeds 25

3 Icewinskas! 35

4 Look Back and Remember 48

5 The Sliver of the New Moon 57

6 Fences 70

7 Buffalo Woman 83

Part II To You We Shall Return

8 The Atomic Age 96

9 Drums 109

10 Away from the Village 123

11 If Only the Land Could Talk 138

12 The Invention of the Arrow 154

Afterword: When We Return to You 169

Acknowledgments 179

Index 181