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“Kent Nerburn offers a sensitive, insightful glimpse into a Lakota soul, a feat unattainable by most non-Native writers.”— Joseph M. Marshall III, Sicangu Lakota, author of The Lakota Way and The Journey of Crazy Horse“Kent Nerburn’s creative and compassionate book [is] humorous, hilarious, and at times very sad. Thank you, Kent, for a good book to read.”— Leonard Peltier, author, artist, and activist“Elegant, yet powerful...Nerburn crosses borders with a single-minded dedication to preserving an oral tradition. The emotional truth that resides in the rich storytelling is a testament to the strength and endurance of Lakota culture and...removes barriers to understanding our common humanity.”— Winona LaDuke, founder and executive director of the White Earth Land Recovery Project“The best storytellers make you feel that they are speaking directly to you, and the best-told stories resonate in the heart and soul forever. A story about the triumph of love and the spirit of a people..., The Wolf at Twilight will be permanently etched in your consciousness.”— Dan Agent, former editor of the Cherokee Phoenix and screenwriter for Our Spirits Don’t Speak English: Indian Boarding School“The story of this unique and captivating journey...is a remarkable gift that we are honored to receive and obligated to pass on.”— Steven R. Heape, Cherokee Nation citizen and producer of the award-winning documentary The Trail of Tears: Cherokee Legacy
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About the Author
Kent Nerburn is the author of twelve books on spirituality and Native themes, including Chief Joseph and the Flight of the Nez Perce (featured on the History Channel), Simple Truths, and The Wisdom of the Native Americans. He lives in northern Minnesota.
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Product details
Series: later printing
Paperback: 368 pages
Publisher: New World Library (November 3, 2009)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1577315782
ISBN-13: 978-1577315780
Product Dimensions:
5.4 x 0.9 x 8.4 inches
Shipping Weight: 1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
Average Customer Review:
4.8 out of 5 stars
182 customer reviews
Amazon Best Sellers Rank:
#36,612 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
This novel explores the experience of being Lakota. The book’s narrative is a composite of conversations with an Indian elder Dan and his friends who live on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. The story is told in the first person voice of the author and thus carries the tone of a memoir.The first part of the book provides a taste of life on the Rez through the author’s account of helping Dan bury of dog who had been a faithful friend and also a description of a sweat lodge experience. After these preliminaries we learn about the real reason the author has been invited to the Rez.Dan, the Indian elder, is about ninety years old and knows he is nearing the end of his life. But before he dies he seeks resolution of a mystery that has haunted him all his life. He wants to learn what happened to his long-lost sister Yellow Bird who disappeared from an American Indian boarding school over 80 years ago.Through the telling of the story about the disappearance of Yellow Bird the reader of this novel is informed about the widespread mistreatment of students at these schools. Many died from communicable diseases at these schools, and their parents were often not fully informed of the reasons for their children’s failure to return home. Sometimes the children were loaned out as servants to white families and sometime adopted. In Yellow Bird’s case she simply disappeared with no explanation.The second half of the book is an account of the author’s searching for records and clues regarding what happened to Yellow Bird. It’s a suspenseful search that grabs and holds the reader’s attention.The following quotation (three paragraphs) is a sample of Dan’s message to the author:“... The lives of my people and your people once ran like separate waters. But now they have come together. I am not saying that this is good or bad. Only the creator knows such things. I only know that the stream of our children’s lives has merged with yours and that all of us must now travel together on the journey of life.“What we must do now is learn from each other—the way it was when your people first came here. We must reach out hands out to each other again. My people must keep our hearts open to what is good about your ways, and you must open your hearts again to what is good about ours. It is time for our Indian voices—the voices that have been silenced—to be heard again.â€...“This is why I come to you. Your people do not hear us because they do not see us. They see drunks. They see shacks. They see casinos and wise men and people with their hands out. They see everything they want to see, but they don’t see us. And if they don’t see us, they don’t hear us. And if they don’t hear us, they can’t learn from us.â€
A superb "nonfiction novel" (based on real events) about the spiritual nature and way of teaching/learning by the people of the Lakota reservation. The author, Kent Nerburn, becomes part of the story, as he visits his friend Dan, to help him on a quest. This involves Dan's goal to find the grave of his long-lost sister, Yellow Bird, who was taken away as a young girl to enter the oppressive Indian school system. Dan never saw her again. Dan is 90 and near death, and needs to bless her resting place (in the Lakota language) before he leaves the earth. It's not just a road trip, but a mystery and a mentorship. It's a chance for the author to learn much from Dan and the Lakota way. Nerburn becomes the student, even though he actually has a Ph.D in Theology. It's also an expose of the Indians schools, where Native American boys and girls were taken to remove all aspects of their culture, learning, clothing, language and inseparable connection to nature, and reeducated to be more "white."Girls were also sexually abused, made to be servants in white homes, and trained to be low-paid servants. Too much of that period has been brushed over in American history, along with genocide and the infamous Trail of Tears, ordered by President Andrew Jackson.The book is not all serious, as it has much humor, which is an important part of Native American culture. And it's very moving in sections, and has lessons for all of us, regardless of our religion or no religion. I recently learned there is interest in making it a movie. I hope it happens.
Dan, the Lakota Elder who we met in Kent Nerburn's nationally acclaimed book "Neither Wolf Nor Dog", reconnects with Kent via a mysterious note attached to a tobacco pouch that says, simply, "Fatback's dead.""The Wolf at Twilight", a "novelized non-fiction" account of Kent's second encounter with Dan, unmasks the dynamically complicated relationship between a white American and a Dakota Indian. Nerburn creates this remarkable partnership through humor, gentle understanding, wisdom, historical revelation, suspense, full embodiment of real people, and his personal journey through the colorful lives of the Lakota people. The Lakota Elder, Dan, has an abiding trust for Nerburn, not because he can pay for the gas, motel rooms and meals, but because Kent has proven his genuine understanding of the Native people through an earlier book project with the children and elders of the Red Lake Indian Reservation, "To Walk the Red Road: Memories of the Red Lake Ojibwe."It's been many years since Kent and Dan shared an adventure together on the sprawling plains of the Dakotas in "Neither Wolf Nor Dog". But, a cryptic note and a strong sense of duty (and some remorse) again send Nerburn on the road with Dan and Grover through the sprawling plains of the Dakotas. There is a colorful collection of Native characters embedded in this excursion including Fatback, Dan's dead dog who Dan has preserved in a freezer for Nerburn to bury; Grover, Dan's crusty, intrepid friend and protector; Wenonah, Dan's granddaughter who makes it clear to Nerburn that he better not disappoint her grandfather; young Native relatives and friends practicing the traditional ways of the Lakota; and small town Americans responding to the confusing juxtaposition of the modern world and an ancient way of life. Nerburn is the student (and sometimes the stooge); Dan is the teacher. Throughout the book, Dan the Elder practices the traditional indigenous pedagogy passed on to him by the many teachers before him. We are reminded constantly, at the expense of Kent's pride, to stop talking and just listen. He asks Nerburn to engage not only his ears in the listening process, but all his senses. Many scenes in the book are masterfully descriptive in their sensory sensitivity. But, Kent also accesses the deep sensing of the forces of nature and brings us into the world of the unseen.Dan is the ever patient but desperate pedagogue. He must get the message to Nerburn. Dan trusts Kent with the responsibility to pass on the information and experiences of his life. It is a life that is fading quickly and Dan needs Nerburn to just do what he's told. We can learn from Dan many of the traditional teaching techniques that worked just fine for thousands of years before the arrival of the Black Book. If Dan can bring Kerburn to understand that the sacred is in everything, they can travel through the unseen world of the spirit guides who will lead them to Dan's long-lost sister, Yellow Bird, and ultimately, to resolution.There are many times when the student, Nerburn, tries to settle for "contempt prior to investigation", but Dan refuses to accept anything but full cooperation. When Dan explains that his newfound, mange riddled mutt, Charles Bronson, was revealed to him by the spirit of his former (and once frozen) dog, Fatback, Kent is incredulous. But Dan persists, and we find much later that Charles Bronson takes on an important role in solving the mystery of Dan's lost sister. Nerburn learns along the way that the seen world is only a fraction of what Dan accesses to guide him through life. It's more often the vast unseen world that directs Dan, and Nerburn's not always reading the same script. It's this spiritual tension that gives us so many vibrant exchanges between the dying Lakota Elder and the Stanford and Berkeley educated Ph.d.At the end of this book, there is a realization that Nerburn, the word sculptor, has carved a beautiful piece of art from the dirty, dark historical secrets of the Indian boarding school experience. He has taken this huge, gnarled chunk of wood and allowed us to observe him carve through rotten pieces of historical and intergenerational trauma. This is not a wandering travel-log we are on. We are the observer, watching a master craftsman follow the grain and knots of a twisted past. We see him in dialog, and in process, with a form that was there before the work began. The shavings on the floor of the studio are the remnants of an ugly episode in American history that cannot be swept under the rug of denial and propaganda. We realize that what we have today is the result of what was created in the past. Nerburn is here to bring it to life.There is a very complicated dynamic between the Native American people and the predominant White culture. It is a twisted web of superiority braided with submission; shame carefully disguised as hegemonic religiosity; genocide justified by hubristic government policies that declared that we must "Kill the Indian to Save the Man"; federally issued educational edicts that ignored the constitutional separation of church and State and bankrolled church sponsored schools of torture and cultural homicide; and the portrayal of the "Noble Savage" on Saturday morning TV shows with big lips, hook noses, buckskin loincloths, and an intuitive sense of humility (a la Tonto). The White culture has always attempted to justify their superiority over indigenous peoples by using the smoke screens of charity, righteousness and pity. The result has been an entire indigenous culture that has lived their lives with the realization that, "I am no longer myself. I am someone else." Dan's search for his sister also becomes a search for his own sense of self. It is a search led by a resilient survivor and not a broken down victim.It is unfair to assume that this book is going to be a "downer" or another swing of the White guilt stick. "The Wolf at Twilight" is, above all, a great story. It takes you through the lives of real people who experience the full range of emotional dynamics and complex human relationships. Kent gives us breathing, crying, dying, laughing, Mountain Dew swilling people who are very much a part of the ethnosphere, and not just anachronistic remnants of Manifest Destiny.Tom KanthakPerpich Center for Arts EducationLiaison for Indigenous Arts EducationTeacher on Special Assignment
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