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Medicine man Archie Fire Lame Deer's inspiring memoir charts his journey from Catholic school runaway to U.S army misfit, from barman to boozer, Hollywood stuntman to rattlesnake catcher - and the long journey which began on his grandfather's South Dakota farm ends in the world of the spirit to which he was born. A book-of-th-month-club selection in America, and praised by Publishers Weekly as "stirring and...instructive reading for those wishing to understand what it is to be Native American today, GIFT OF POWER evokes the magic and power of the Lakota Indian pantheon of spirits with remarkable candour.
Amazon.com Review
Gift of Power is a classic story of one man's journey through alienation and struggle to epiphany and redemption. Archie Fire Lame Deer embodies the Native American struggle for survival in a homeland that has become foreign. In vivid first- person narrative, Lame Deer recalls his tumultuous life in a stereotypical Indian world of bottles, feathers, and horses. After enough booze and fighting to kill an average man, he transcends his self-destructive tendencies by reclaiming the spiritual elements of his traditional culture. We learn along with Lame Deer the power and secrets of native medicine and the gifts that they bring to the beholder. This Lakota medicine man is a teacher and a model.
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