Sungazing Summer

By: Donni Buffalo Dog;

Language: English

Quality: Like New

Genre: Historical fiction,

ISBN: 9782843150067

SKU: BE500027901302

Pages: 313

Description: They know themselves as The People, each one and the whole. The Tasha and the Khoka; two bands, moving through life under ten-and-two moons of a winter long passed. Two bands guided by strong leaders, strong women.... and the inexplicable knowing of an old man, a very old sacred-man. The people watch attentively the growth of two of their sons; one they call "the different one", to the other they say "sungazer". Two among their own, growing, strengthening, expanding, walking toward destiny, perhaps into greatness; two young men, facing the most challenging of challenges: change. Change brought on by the strange nature of the washichu, the paleskins who come bearing a different message.... Donni Buffalo Dog, already recognized for ber sculpture and drawing, presents here her first novel but her own life would also read like a novel. After the death of her Pawnee/Cherokee father in the early 1930's, she was raised by her mother without knowing the truth of her blood- beritage. Early on, she sensed a strong difference between herself and the others in the society in which she lived, but it wasn't until she had passed more than forty years that it became clear to her that she must find a way of life more suited to her nature. She left the city, her work and the white society behind and went into the wilderness. For several seasons she lived in a tipi in the forest on an inner search for the traces of her Native American ancestry and there found the peace she needed for personal growth. Sungazing Summer is a novel, twelve years in the writing, but also the expression of the heritage discovered during those winters of solitude