Randy Kritkausky

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Awakening to Native American Spirituality and the Ways of Our Ancestors

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Produktbeschreibung

A powerful story of spiritual awakening, reconnection with Nature, and rekindling of ancestral wisdom • Details the author's encounters with ancestral spirits and animal teachers, such as Coy-Wolf, and profound moments of direct connection with the natural world • Shows how ancestral connections and intimate communications with Nature are not unique or restricted to those with indigenous cultural roots • Reveals how reconnection with ancestors and the natural world offers insight and solutions for the complex problems we face We are but a few generations removed from millennia spent living in intimate contact with the natural world and in close commune with ancestral spirits. Who we are and who we think we are is rooted in historical connections with those who came before us and in our relationships with the land and the sentient natural world. When we wander too far from our roots, our ancestors and kin in the natural world call us home, sometimes with gentle whispers and sometimes in loud voices sounding alarms. In this powerful story of spiritual awakening, Randy Kritkausky shares his journey into the realm of ancestral Native American connections and intimate encounters with Mother Earth and shows how anyone can spiritually reconnect with their ancestors and Nature. Like 70 percent of those who identify as Native American, Kritkausky grew up off the reservation. As he explains, for such "off reservation" indigenous people rediscovering ancestral practices amounts to a reawakening and offers significant insights about living in a society that is struggling to mend a heavily damaged planet. The author reveals how the awakening process was triggered by his own self-questioning and the resumption of ties with his Potawatomi ancestors. He details his encounters with ancestral spirits and animal teachers, such as Coy-Wolf. He shares moments of direct connection with the natural world, moments when the consciousness of other living beings, flora and fauna, became accessible and open to communication. Through his profound storytelling, Kritkausky shows how ancestral connections and intimate communications with Nature are not unique or restricted to those with indigenous cultural roots. Offering a bridge between cultures, a path that can be followed by Native and non-Native alike, the author shows that spiritual awakening can happen anywhere, for anyone, and can open the gateway to deeper understanding.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Simon + Schuster LLC
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. August 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781591433859
• Artikelnr.: 58714805

Autorenporträt

Randy Kritkausky is an enrolled tribal member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation. He is a founder of ECOLOGIA, an international environmental organization that works on the planet's more extreme challenges, and formerly professor at Keystone College, research scholar at Middlebury College, and Erasmus Mundus Scholar at the Central European University in Budapest and Lund University in Sweden. He lives in Vermont.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1 Bozho, Bonjour, Hello, Dear Reader
2 The Awakening
3 Before the Awakening
4 Pathways to Knowing
5 What Coy-Wolf Taught Me
6 The Nexus of Time
7 Roots Connect in Vieux Montréal
8 Encounters with Kateri Tekakwitha
9 Asa’s Indian School Story
10 Reflections on Warrior Culture
11 Decolonizing Powwows
12 The Re-creation Story
13 Koo-koo-o-koo and the Bear Moon
14 Awakenings on the Reservation
15 Rootless in the Botanical Garden
16 Toward a Newly Re-spirited Environmentalism
17 Microbes and Black Swans
Conclusion. Untangling Threads of Historical Narrative
Glossary of Indian Words
Notes
Bibliography
Index