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.

Author: Kent Nerburn
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: New World Library
Published: 11/03/2009
Pages: 368
Weight: 1.1lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.50w x 1.20d
ISBN: 9781577315780


Award: 2009 IndieFab awards Bronze Medal Winner - Multicultural Fiction
Award: 2010 Minnesota Book Award Winner - Memoir