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In A LITTLE BIT OF WISDOM, Horace Axtell, a contemporary Nez Perce elder and spiritual leader, recounts to Margo Aragon his family's history and his own personal journey. It is a book about growing up Christian while maintaining a strong tribal identity, about going first to war and then to prison, and then coming home to rediscover the Long House and the sacred practice of the Seven Drum Religion and the Sweat House.
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Horace Axtell is a full-blood Nez Perce elder and leader of Seven Drum Religion on the Nez Perce Reservation. He also teaches the Nez Perce language at Lewis-Clark State College. Margo Aragon first met Axtell when she interviewed him for her award-winning documentary, Nee-mee-poo: The Power of Our Dance.
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Seventy-two-year-old Axtell is a full-blood Nez Perce Indian. His chance meeting at a powwow with documentary filmmaker Aragon resulted in this book of reminiscences, thoughts, and teachings. Roughly chronological, this collection of conversations meanders through Axtell's childhood in Idaho to his enlistment in the army during World War II and his brush with the law and imprisonment in 1949. An early release and attempts to turn his life around back home culminated in his marching in Clinton's 1993 inaugural parade. Born a Christian in a family that also followed Nez Perce spiritual traditions, Axtell slowly became a practitioner and eventual leader of the traditional Nez Perce Long House religion only in his forties. Aragon functions mostly as a transcriber here, allowing Axtell to tell in his own way about his life and beliefs. Highly readable, this work stands alongside Joseph Iron Eyes Dudley's Choteau Creek: A Sioux Reminiscence (Univ. of Nebraska, 1992) and Joseph Medicine Crow's From the Heart of the Crow Country (Crown, 1992) as 20th-century oral histories from voices rarely given the chance to speak.?Lisa A. Mitten, Univ. of Pittsburgh
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- PublisherUniv of Oklahoma Pr
- Publication date2000
- ISBN 10 0806132698
- ISBN 13 9780806132693
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages217
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