Title: Neither Wolf nor Dog 25th Anniversary Edition Pdf On Forgotten Roads with an Indian Elder
Author: Kent Nerburn
Published Date: 2019-09-03
Page: 360
“Realists wanting a truthful, fiery, and ultimately cleansing dialogue between Indian and white will definitely want [this book].” — Booklist “An imaginative leap that encompasses several genres in its successful attempt to convey some aspects of American Indian life and truth to American readers.” — Minneapolis Star Tribune “A chronicle extraordinary for its difficult truths and its stunning depths. . . . This is a sobering, humbling, cleansing, loving book, one that every American should read.” — Yoga Journal “I expected to find Black Elk between these covers. What I found instead was more modern, more alive, and every bit as poignant and moving.” — NAPRA Review “This is one of those rare works that once you’ve read it, you can never look at the world, or at people, the same way again. It is quiet and forceful and powerful.” — American Indian College Fund A two-time winner of the Minnesota Book Award, Kent Nerburn is the author of many books on spirituality and Native American themes, including Letters to My Son, Small Graces, Simple Truths, The Wolf at Twilight, and The Girl Who Sang to the Buffalo. He lives near Portland, Oregon.
Against an unflinching backdrop of 1990s reservation life and the majestic spaces of the western Dakotas, Neither Wolf nor Dog tells the story of two men, one white and one Indian, locked in their own understandings yet struggling to find a common voice. In this award-winning book, acclaimed author Kent Nerburn draws us deep into the world of a Native American elder named Dan, who leads Kent through Indian towns and down forgotten roads that swirl with the memories of the Ghost Dance and Sitting Bull. Along the way we meet a vivid cast of characters — ranging from Jumbo, a 400-pound mechanic, to Annie, an eighty-year-old Lakota woman living in a log cabin with no running water. An unlikely cross between On the Road and Black Elk Speaks, Neither Wolf nor Dog takes us past the myths and stereotypes of the Native American experience, revealing an America few ever see.
A harsh but necessary read I really debated between four and five stars on this book. While my family ancestry is in part "Native American", it is also French enough to "hide" within the dominant Northern European culture in most of North America. My opinion is that because my family has never felt the sting of prejudice and oppression, I do not and have no right to claim "Indian-ness". This book deals with the still raw wounds inflicted upon upon not some vague "Native Americans" or "Indians of North America" but upon real people. In a very real and immediate way, Nerburn uses the words of Dan to confront a long history of oppression, murder, and genocide perpetuated on those who were here before the European invasion beginning in the 15th Century. I will admit that I put the book down and for awhile thought that I would not finish it. After a few weeks, I went back and finished the last two chapters and am very glad I did, so I suggest that you if you waver, stay the course and finish it. I am now reading the continuation of this story, the Wolf at Twilight.A book to fill your cup I was first introduced to Neither Wolf Nor Dog in a college history course about 15 years ago, have read it four times since then, and regularly recommend and gift it to other people. Over the last 10 years, I have continued to seek out and read almost every book written by Kent Nerburn: not one has disappointed. The two books that follow NWND, The Wolf at Twilight, and Girl Who Sang to the Buffalo add depth and extension of stories touched on in NWND. Each time I journeyed through this story with Nerburn, Dan, Grover, and Fatback, I emerged on the other side as a more fully developed human being. No other book I’ve discovered has been able to explore the conflicted relationship between white culture and native culture with such curiosity, integrity, and compassion. Nerburn is willing to literally take the back seat and allow his Indian elders to steer the story over often rugged and trackless terrain. His relationship with Dan, the Lakota elder, and the other native “characters” teaches us all about the necessity of taking a step back, silencing ourselves, and opening our lives and minds to another’s point of view, no matter how uncomfortable that may be. This book is able show the multitudes contained within Native America, dispelling the limited, static, and mythological stereotypes that only serve to bind us to a false narrative. Nerburn’s insightful, vivid, and lyrical prose consistently teaches me something new about the interconnectedness of all things and how to walk in beauty on this earth.
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