The price of a gift : a Lakota healer's story / Gerald Mohatt & Joseph Eagle Elk.

  • Mohatt, Gerald Vincent.
Date:
[2000], ©2000
  • Books

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Publication/Creation

Lincoln ; London : University of Nebraska Press, [2000], ©2000.

Physical description

xvi, 226 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references (p. [211]-213) and index.

Contents

pt. 1. Place and destiny -- 1. Joeiela -- 2. Destiny and life's purpose -- 3. A family's destiny -- pt. 2. Traveling and searching -- 4. Steps and missteps -- 5. All of my relatives -- 6. A life changed -- pt. 3. Vision and choice -- 7. Marriage, family, and vision -- 8. Origins and gifts before the pipe -- 9. The fish and the man -- pt. 4. Wisdom -- 10. Life and struggles of a medicine man -- 11. Further teachings -- 12. Sitting in the center : a search for words.

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Where to find it

  • LocationStatus
    History of Medicine
    BZP (Eagle Elk)
    Open shelves

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ISBN

  • 0803232047