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    The Lakota Way: Stories and Lessons for Living

    By Joseph M. Marshall III

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    Joseph M. Marshall’s thoughtful, illuminating account of how the spiritual beliefs of the Lakota people can help us all lead more meaningful, ethical lives.

    Rich with storytelling, history, and folklore, The Lakota Way expresses the heart of Native American philosophy and reveals the path to a fulfilling and meaningful life. Joseph Marshall is a member of the Sicunga Lakota Sioux and has dedicated his entire life to the wisdom he learned from his elders. Here he focuses on the twelve core qualities that are crucial to the Lakota way of life--bravery, fortitude, generosity, wisdom, respect, honor, perseverance, love, humility, sacrifice, truth, and compassion. Whether teaching a lesson on respect imparted by the mythical Deer Woman or the humility embodied by the legendary Lakota leader Crazy Horse, The Lakota Way offers a fresh outlook on spirituality and ethical living.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPenguin Group
    Release dateOct 29, 2002
    ISBN9781101078068
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    The Lakota Way: Stories and Lessons for Living
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    Joseph M. Marshall III

    Joseph M. Marshall III is a teacher, historian, writer, storyteller, and a Lakota craftsman. He was born on the Rosebud Sioux Indian Reservation in South Dakota and raised in a traditional native household by his maternal grandparents. He has published nine nonfiction works including The Lakota Way: Stories and Lessons for Living and To You We Shall Return: Lessons About Our Planet from the Lakota, three novels, a collection of short stories and essays, a children's book, and was contributing author in five other publications; and has written several screenplays. Several of his books have been published in French, Hebrew, Korean, Japanese, German, Italian, Chinese, Romanian, Portuguese, Spanish, and Bulgarian. In addition, Joseph has had several major screen appearances, including a role in the television network movie, Return to Lonesome Dove, and as a technical advisor and narrator for the Turner Network Television (TNT) and DreamWorks six part mini-series Into the West. Joseph has been recognized for his writing, scholarship, and service with numerous awards, including the Wyoming Humanities Award and the 2009 Benjamin Franklin Award for Historical Fiction. He is also a practitioner of primitive Lakota archery, having learned from his maternal grandfather the art of hand-crafting bows and arrows, and is a specialist in wilderness survival. Joseph and his wife Connie (also his literary agent and manager) are the parents of a blended family and have sixteen grandchildren. For more about Joseph's writings and appearances, please visit www.thunderdreamers.com.

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    • 5/5
      One of the great outgrowths of doing the Book Riot Read Harder Challenge is that I have found some genres and subject matter I would not have read before, and have made them central to my reading choices. Books by indigenous writers are one of those subsets. The BR challenge coincided with my spending a couple of years living in North Dakota, and for the first time in my life bearing witness to rez life, and having the opportunity to count among my friends, colleagues and acquaintances a number of Native American people, most from one or another of the Sioux tribes. So over the last couple years I have read about a dozen books from indigenous authors, mostly from Native American writers, but a couple from Down Under as well. This year I am looking to expand to Canada and Central America, and then expand again beyond indigenous people to all colonized people. It has been incredibly illuminating so far and I expect this will continue to teach me about the world.This book, The Lakota Way, was a particular joy. Marshall has distilled the most prized values of Lakota ethics/religion/life to its most bedrock tenets. For each tenet he has included a couple of folkloric stories, and personal reminiscences. Marshall concludes the book with a brief history of European efforts to destroy the Lakota, and really all the Sioux and Ojibwe people. I recently finished The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee, so the historical portions covered things mostly quite fresh in my mind, but still, the way he boiled it down to essential events was effective and illuminating. Also illuminating, the wonderful stories in this book. I find myself looking at my own life and choices differently, and I am generally not as given to self-reflection as, perhaps, I ought to be. I hate the trope of the the wise old Indian, I have no doubt there are as many foolish Native Americans as there are foolish European, or Latin, or Asian, or African Americans. Marshall though is in fact a wise old (or at least middle-aged) Indian. So wise. And a wonderful storyteller. I listened to this book, read by the author, and his storytelling made this very special for me.I recommend this to all readers. It is a simply remarkable book. My son will be 21 in a couple weeks, but when he was younger we often read books simultaneously and then discussed them, and this would be an exceptional choice for for readers middle school and above. (Nothing inappropriate for younger readers, but there are grand concepts most kids under the age of 11 or 12 would not fully grasp.)
    • 4/5
      The wide variety of stories in this collection is its greatest strength. Marshall's tone is also appealing.
    • 5/5
      In this work Marshall shares stories he learned from his grandparents and the other elders in his life. Each chapter centers around a different virtue valued by the Lakota. The virtues addressed are: humility, perseverance, respect, honor, love, sacrifice, truth, compassion, bravery, fortitude, generosity and wisdom. Most chapters begin with a Lakota story passed down through oral tradition. Marshall ties these stories and the virtues modeled in them to modern culture and events that take place today. Marshall gives Native American historical background and tells this history from a Native American perspective. Marshall speaks directly to the reader warmly, and sincerely - one gets the feeling that he cares deeply for and respects each of his readers. As he moves on to modern day application of the teaching of his elders it made me think deeply about the values in our lives and the lack of virtue that we witness on a daily basis. As educators we often have a hard time teaching morals and values because they so often are tied to religion. I appreciate the opportunity to address these issues with students without having to refer to biblical teachings. The way the stories are related to modern day events would makes the stories relevant to today's students.
    • 4/5
      This is a very well done book. The author identifies different, important virtues, and then tells a Lakota tale that exemplifies said virtue. The stories are well told and entertaining as well as poignant. Following each story is an exposition about the story and the virtue which is, again, well done.The stories told are then followed by a short history of the westward expansion of european settlers and the US government from the Native American perspective. The history is very short and general, but it does show how the virtues talked about in the main body have been maintained and displayed by the Lakota. In addition, by showing how the Lakota have held onto these virtues, it shows how they have been able to claim some cultural victories in the face of adversity.