Neither Wolf nor Dog: On Forgotten Roads with an Indian.
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Kent Nerburn?s Neither Wolf Nor Dog is the 1994 account of a journey he took from his Bemidji home to the Black Hills of western South Dakota. This journey started when an Indian elder named Dan summoned Nerburn, to write a book for him. This book was to contain Dan?s intimate thoughts and feelings that have been stewing inside of him his entire life.
This justification of immorality by using reason supports Niebuhr’s argument that the privileged class will rationalize their immorality in order to keep their privileges. This idea is also seen in Neither Wolf nor Dog by Kent Nerburn when Dan, a native American, discusses the colonization of America.
Neither Wolf nor Dog is one small effort to help this coming together. It is not an attempt to build a fence around a man and his people, but to honor them with the gift of my words. I have done my best, and I place this book before you, like the tobacco before the buffalo rock, as a simple offering.
Neither Wolf Nor Dog: On Forgotten Roads with an Indian Elder. New World Library, Novato, 1994. (47) These strangers shot animals just to kill them. They left them lying in gullies. They made paths through the lands that were heavier than our paths. These people became like a river through the land. We had never seen the kind of things they did.
Readers meet vivid characters like Jumbo, a 400-pound mechanic, and Annie, an 80-year-old Lakota woman living in a log cabin. Threading through the book is the story of two men struggling to find a common voice. Neither Wolf nor Dog takes readers to the heart of the Native American experience.
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