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echo: indian_affairs
to: JIM CASTO
from: SONDRA BALL
date: 1997-07-04 15:23:00
subject: Re: PRAYERS

  > JC> BTW, whilst I'm here... Ever read a book titled "Neither Wolf Nor 
og"
  > > of an author by the name of Kent Nerburn?
JC> SB> Nope.  Is it a book I should add to my list of books to read someday?
JC> Uh... If I were you I wouldn't put it real high on my list. But it is a
  > book that someone on the "other" service that claims to be full-blood
  > has recommended at a book the can "teach" the "white guy" about the 
"Indian
  > (This same person also claims that one can NEVER "learn" about "Indians"
  > by reading books... Go figure.)
Hmmmm -- it sounds like he really hasn't made up his mind about this
yet.
JC> It's a book by a "white guy" that has been "taught" by a Lakota "elder"
  > (whom the author does not identify) over the period of one summer or so.
  > (The full-blood I mentioned above "claims" to "know" some of the people
  > mentioned in the book which supposedly gives it some authenticity.)
I am always skeptical of all books written by white guys taught by
Lakota elders.  I am so skeptical of them that I refuse to read them.
                                 Sondra
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