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The Wolf at Twilight: An Indian Elder's Journey through a Land of Ghosts and Shadows
Written by Kent Nerburn
Narrated by Peter Berkrot
Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
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About this audiobook
A note is left on a car windshield, an old dog dies, and Kent Nerburn finds himself back on the Lakota reservation where he traveled more than a decade before with a tribal elder named Dan. The touching, funny, and haunting journey that ensues goes deep into reservation boarding-school mysteries, the dark confines of sweat lodges, and isolated Native homesteads far back in the Dakota hills in search of ghosts that have haunted Dan since childhood.
In this fictionalized account of actual events, Nerburn brings the land of the northern High Plains alive and reveals the Native American way of teaching and learning with a depth that few outsiders have ever captured.
In this fictionalized account of actual events, Nerburn brings the land of the northern High Plains alive and reveals the Native American way of teaching and learning with a depth that few outsiders have ever captured.
Author
Kent Nerburn
Kent Nerburn has been widely praised as one of the few writers who can respectfully bridge the gap between native and nonnative cultures. His book Neither Wolf nor Dog: On Forgotten Roads with an Indian Elder won the 1995 Minnesota Book Award.
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Reviews for The Wolf at Twilight
Rating: 4.600000085714285 out of 5 stars
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Dan. Old man. Kent. All of my relations within this book- Words have no way of explaining how I feel. Gratitude. Honor. Love. Sorrow. Grief. Oneness. This book has changed my life. From the deepest places of my soul, thank you.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Thank you wasichu.Loved it.Charles Bronson and Grover and Fatback ...Let the great spirit hold you in its lap Dear Dan.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5This is the sequel to [Neither Wolf nor Dog] which I enjoyed earlier this year. Although this second book does refer to some earlier events, it could easily be be read as a stand alone.Once more author Kent Nerburn is summoned by Dan, an elder in the Lakota tribe. Dan would like Nerburn to discover what happened to his little sister. Some seventy years previously, she was kidnapped into the Indian School program, and although Dan had tried to go with her, they were separated and moved. The family never heard from her again. Dan is approaching the end of his life and would like to know her fate.It’s an impossible task, but with some synchronicity/spiritual leading Nerburn finds clues leading to her trail. And as it unfolds, a spiritually lost young man, dubbed by the tribe as ‘Shitty’ also finds his way.This one is a bit more sentimental than the first. But I guarantee that readers will remember the story of this lost girl – one of so many who disappeared into the Indian School system
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5I absolutely loved this book. I have not read the first book but I plan to. I fell quickly in love with Dan and his friends. I felt that I was along on the long trip to find Dan's long lost sister. Reading this was like sitting around the campfire listening to the elders tell their stories. Stories that I believe need to be heard, by everyone. We have so much to learn from the Native Americans. Highly recommended.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Reunites Nerburn and the Indian Elder, Dan, he chronicled in his earlier work, "Neither Wolf Nor Dog." Their journey this time centers around an important segment in American history that many young Americans alive today are unaware of, compulsory boarding schools for Native American children. Enlightening and heartwrenching.