Native Elders: Sharing Their Wisdom

by Kim Sigafus and Lyle Ernst

Book Overview

In Indigenous cultures, elders serve as a bridge across time: they are connected to the past, they live in the present and they offer wisdom for the future. In these fascinating biographical essays, twelve First Nation and Native American elders share stories from their lives and tell what it was like to live in a time before television, cell phones and video games. Their stories explain how their humble childhoods shaped the adults they became and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 097791836X
• ISBN13: 9780977918362
• Release Date: May 2014
• Publisher: 7th Generation
• Length: 112 Pages
• Weight: 2.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 12 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 7 and higher