Touching the Fire: Buffalo Dancers, the Sky Bundle, and Other Tales

By Roger Welsch

Book Overview

"A remarkable collection. The book is engrossing, wonderful, and belongs to anyone who cares about our unwritten American history." JIM HARRISON When the Europeans invaded this continent, they took land and water, but ignored what may be the greatest riches of all: the dazzling wealth of Native American spiritual and psychological wisdom. Now, adopted Omaha tribesman Roger Welsch, a.k.a. Bull Buffalo Chief brings a new collection of stories about an imaginary midwestern tribe, the Turtle Creek Nehawkas, the way they are, the way they were. Bright with the flame of traditional Native American wisdom, TOUCHING THE FIRE will bring new warmth and awareness into the heart and life of all who read it. From the Trade Paperback edition.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0679408878
• ISBN13: 9780679408871
• Release Date: September 1992
• Publisher: Villard Books
• Length: 270 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.8" x 8.6"

Customer Reviews

This is a fantastic (literally) book!

I reviewed this book for a magazine when it first appeared. I gave it an all thumbs and fingers up review. I've reread it several times since then and it only gets better. Roger Welsch has written something that goes to the very heart of Native American religion, and done so in a way that is neither dismissive nor sappy. He is bang-up, dead-on, exactly right in his approach. I've used this book in some of the university classes I teach. Once the students understand that we're progressing backward through time, they have no problems. It's especially helpful in providing a background for discussing the whole repatriation of objects issue.