I highly recommend this
book . Having lived and worked all over Canada in my youth, and made many friends.A
great many of whom were The Blackfoot, The Sioux,The Cree, The Plains Indians , and the Indians of the Klondike Valley in Kelowna British Columbia, where one can see the Totem Poles, or the (Talking Stick) as the Red Indians call it, I first heard of this expression from a group of Indians who had gathered around a Totem pole on the banks of Lake Kelowna , a beautiful scenic place in British Columbia, and next to an old Paddle Steamer, The Fintry Queen, that took the Miners up the Klondike searching for the Fools Gold that they couldnt take into the Hereafter with them, much wrote about by Jack London,This was on my Birthday on the 16 of September 1978 that I invited the Indians in from the Park, to the restaurant I had franchised, they told me about the
Talking stick, as it was five in the morning and snowing profusely and minus -20 they were sitting around the Totem pole,without a fire ,humming an almost Tibetan chant in front of the talking stick,apparently it was their Great Grandfathers,and all the Family tree was carved on it,much the same as the Aborigines of Australia, introduce their children to Ayres
Rock or Ularua to make their Palm Prints,I gave the dozen of them breakfast, in a Christian act, reminiscent of the last supper served GMT, BST,or `CAT,they wished me a Happy Birthday on (The Day The Deer Paws the Earth) ie 16 September. Peter Nabokov, has wrote a Great Book, which should be an American Treasure, if there is to be a sequel, I hope it will be written by a Red Indian Translator,so that the Poetry, the Natural Rhythm, The Magical Communication,and the beauty of the Language is displayed, otherwise Mankind itself will lose the whole of the pedagogical purpose of an Ancient, Proud, and Beautiful
Peoples of whom we can learn so much,of our own natural world today, this book will stand the test of time as surely as the
Ancient peoples it portrays. ''Where The Lightning Strikes`, like a bolt from the blue has surely struck me to the quick.Well done Peter! thou art a rock, indeed for these ancient peoples.
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