Opal Viola Victoria Bear Shield has come to watch her nephew Orvil

has written a compassionate novel about the beauty of the natural world and the painful moral choices humans make in it

prodded on by dancing foxes

With beauty and ease

personal decolonization

The Soul of the Indian: Special Edition Iroquois Opal Viola Victoria Bear ShieldThe Soul of the Indian is Charles A. Eastman's exploration and documentation of religion as he experienced it during the late nineteenth century. A Dakota physician and writer who sought to bring understanding between Native and non Native Americans, Eastman (1858 1939) became one of the best known Native Americans of his time and a significant intellectual figure whose clarity of vision endures today. In a straightforward manner Eastman emphasizes