Voices of Our Ancestors: Cherokee Teachings from the Wisdom Fire
by Dhyani Ywahoo

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Book Review: Information that provides a path to reconnect and live.
Summary: 5 Stars

Ywahoo & Du Bois have provided a treasure - a book capable of aiding the off-axis "Western" mind in the journey back from a hell created by the "White" or Western world view which views nature and the material world as abstractions to be owned, used and disposed of. What we have forgotten is what the First Nations have always known.

The book is medicine against the malaise of debilitating falsehoods that arise in the historic conflict between Western and Native peoples. People, of whatever "race", have the choice to make a life that resonates in harmony with nature - or to identify easily and without reflection with the world of the conquerors (i.e. "the world has always been like this..." -- "Progress is Good, Growth is Good, Man is Destined to Rule the Earth"). But this choice is not "racial" at all -

the book drew me away from "us and them" conundrums that confuse through false divisions of race, ethnicity etc. The identity of a person is determined partly by circumstance but ultimately the truth is that the world is literally what we imagine it to be - in the case of "White" culture, a world of scarcity, competition and souless "inanimate raw materials" to be endlessly hunted down and exploited for their "value". The point is that with information such as is found in 'Voices of Our Ancestors' one can further the process of finding within one's self the root identity beneath the victor's false veneer of "historic" identity. One can struggle to remove the blinds and refuse to be identified by one's masters (the victors definately won something) as "White", "Black", "Red", "Brown". This is the path away from the precipice, the collapse of the web of life which is the legacy of a culture whose dreams are lies and in whose thrall I find myself less and less thanks to books like 'Voices of Our Ancestors'

P.S. - I have lent two copies which have not returned... if you who reads this find an extra, send it my way :-)

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