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This is possibly the finest single volume history of the Sioux War of 1876. I never realized from the Army's position what a concentrated effort, involving thousands of soldiers, this was. I also never realized that the Sioux inflicted not one but two significant defeats on the Army, both by 2 different groups of Indians and each within just a few days of the other.

From the Army point of view this was a determined campaign, involving 3 separate, converging columns over thousands of square miles. From the Indian point of view this was an uncoordinated, chance thing, with 2 different groups rendezvousing with each other within just a few days.

This is an excellent work about a strange pseudo war whose centerpiece is the Custer massacre. John S. Gray provides a meticulously researched, somewhat controversial, account of what appears to have been a totally unnecessary war. The maps are very well done, allowing a greater understanding of the tactical issues and terrain faced by both sides.

fair, balanced and packed with incredible information
worth 6 stars !

This is a great book to learn everything about the 1876 Sioux War from the political and economic situations that fueled the conflict (gold and the Black Hills, dissolving the 1868 Peace Treaty), the behavior of the independent Sioux, Grant's ultimatum, the Sheridan three prong attack on the Sioux, the political (Custer and Grant) and weather problems hindering he start of the campaign and General's Crook and Terry's frustrating attempts to catch the Sioux and Cheyenne who fragmented into smaller groups after the Little Big Horn. Also covers Crook's March campaign that resulted in a controversial but failed battle on the Powder River and the critical battle of the Rosebud in June 30 miles southeast of the Little Big Horn which occurred just 8 days prior to Custer's annihilation. Crook, the great Indian fighter with twice Custer's number, becomes displaced out of the Sheridan attack plan due to the furious attack by the Sioux and Cheyenne. Gray also documents how the winter roamers left the agencies to join the summer roamers (Sitting Bull, Gall, Crazy Horse, Two Moon) which peaked with one of the largest villages ever on the North American continent at the time of Custer's attack. The book completes the story by detailing the aftermath of Custer's battle with Crooks and Terry's joint and separate campaigns and the addition of General Nelson Miles. Not a total story on Custer, for that you should read Gray's "Custer's Last Campaign" but start with "Centennial Campaign" to get the complete picture.

In 1981 I made a phone call to a retired medical doctor named John Gray. I told him I had just finished reading his book, CENTENNIAL CAMPAIGN, and would love to talk with him. I figured we would talk on the phone, so I was surprised when he invited me to visit him in his home in Ft. Collins, Colorado. I accepted his invitation without hesitation.

We spent the entire afternoon talking about his book. There was one question that I was anxious to get answered. Why did he write less than a page about the Custer fight itself? Gray didn't really know what happened during that battle, so there really wasn't much to say. I laughed but it made sense.

This book is not about the Custer fight, but about the entire campaign of the Sioux War of 1876 and it is filled with new revelations about the causes and events of this war. Most interesting is Gray's narrative about the White House meeting between Grant and his aides concerning how they should deal with the Sioux problem and why they started a war.

The book is filled with detailed maps of the Indian movements during the campaign, where and when they camped and for how long. The same is done for soldier column movements.

There is an excellent analysis of the size of the warrior force at the Little Bighorn that historians accept to this day. The numbers will surprise you.

If you have not read much on the Sioux war, then I highly recommend this book. You'll learn that the Custer fight was just one of many events of a long brutal, bloody war.

This is the best book on this subject! You should also get his book on the last stand.

This book is a good primer to learning about Native American Medicine. The writing is fairly engaging, but reads somewhat as a self-help book, which is either good or bad depending on your perspective. But I like self-help, and I liked this book.

I bought this book on the basis of the recommendations and a referral. It is very well written and clearly explains the sacred hoop medicine wheel in relation to healing and wellness of spirit, emotion, and body. In fact, it does so better than any other book I've read on the subject. It also provides ways to facilitate healing circles for those who are interested in pursuing that. I look forward to reading more Garrett books.

An excellent presentation of Cherokee religion in respect to the harmony in the relationships of cycles. Easily readable, but goes into depth to give good solid understanding. A well done book on the subject!

An amazing study book. Encourages me to continue in my Native American roots search. Thank you. I have all of Garretts books.

Helps me with my meditation practices. Better to use this in the great outdoors but a very sprit building book!

Hooray for Ms. Gentry! It is about time someone recreated the hell the Cheyenne were forced to endure. I also liked Glory, instead of the petite virgin most authors create, she is an average woman, someone we can relate too. Two Arrows was realistic as well as the other warriors, she really brought them to life. I cried, the events were based on actual history and I knew that, her writing brought vivid images to my mind. Another part that broke my heart was a section about a little starving Cheyenne girl in which Glory gave her a candy stick. The girl later bestowed Glory a bracelet in return of her jester. I really appreciate that Ms. Gentry researched the Cheyenne's upbringing and added it to this story. The love between Glory and Two Arrows was so powerful, leaving a physical sensation in one's heart.

This was my first Georgina Gentry novel, but almost needless to say it won't be my last. It takes you back to Fort Reno, Indian Territory in 1878 and tells the true story of how a group of northern Cheyenne went back to their native lands. A trek of 1500 miles largely mastered on foot and partly in bad weather. Interwowen in this true story is the tale of two fictive caracters, the drunken army scout Two Arrows who was once a celebrated Dog Soldier among his people and divorcee Glory Halstead. Both of them struggle to regain a place in society and proud, headstrong Glory finds herself taken captive by Two Arrows as the indians decides to leave for home. During the weeklong ordeal Glorys feelings towards Two Arrows slowly change from hate to admiration and finally love.
The novel is very well written, the secondary characters, like captain David Krueger who loves Glory and wows to free her and kill Two Arrows no matter what are vividly described.
The book had me turning pages and towards the end had me sobbing so hard I had to pause to blow my nose and dry the tears from my cheeks :o)
WOW !
This book is a true keeper and a magnificent lovestory that also sheats light on the ordeal that the northern Cheyenne went through as they tried to return back home.

I absolutely cherish this book and can highly recommend it.

This is more than a heart- gripping romance. It is accurate to history, and so exciting you can not put it down!
This author does an excellent job making you feel like part of the scene. She takes you on the 1500 mile trek that the Northern Cheyenne made in their fight for freedom. The characters are vivid, their struggle is heart- breaking and yet heroic. Many of "The People" in this story will become special to you. Each battle will have you glued to the pages. I found myself actually holding my breathe as I read at times!
The romance is moving and totally consuming. The love between the characters is radiant. Also, you will enjoy some very steamy and daring love scenes.
I hated to see this book end! I'll definitely be checking out more of this author's novels.

Cheyenne Song is by far one of Georgina's best. I could not put this book down. I read this book in two days and went back and read it again. This one and Cheyenne Splender They are pack with history and romance. I liked these two books so much that I am now collecting all of her books.

I got the large print copy of this book and liked the cover of that book better.
I liked the fact that the heroine was not your typical one. She was a dark-haired woman, over thirty, strong, independent, and had a job. Glory, aka Proud One, was the type of woman that makes reading these type of books worth it.
Two Arrows was a good hero. Even though he's an alcholic whose been through a lot in his life. He and Glory gets a second chance through their love for each other.
I have a strong interest in the Native American culture yet I don't read too many NA romance books because I don't like the way the NA's are betrayed. This book gave me insight to what Native Americans went through and a glimpse at their history.
Two complaints that I have is that the author used the word "sword" to describe the male parts and I thought she could have found a better word than that. I also felt the author could have written an epilogue instead of rushing the ending.
The love scenes were good and was more about love than trying to be erotic. On a whole, I would recommend this book, I think you will enjoy it.

I read this book when i was in 8th grade and i loved it ever since and used to own my own copy. It gave insight to the way i viewed our capitalist world. But why so expensive to buy it? this book has a knowledge that everyone should be able to get at a low cost, not because many of sellers want to make a profit off the book that is out of print, irony to those who read it and are selling and say its a great book. i passed mine on to a good friend.

I agree with both previous reviewers that the book is an extraordinary indictment of the dominant culture. But I got something else from this book as well. I read this that Forbes is saying that one of the reasons civilization is killing the planet is because of a spiritual illness with a physical vector. If I get the flu and then cough all over you, you might then get the flu, with all of its symptoms. If I have the cannibal sickness and I cough (or somehow otherwise transfer the disease to you) you will have to consume the souls of others in order to survive. You will become a vampire. Or to putthis another way, you will become a conquistador, a pornographer, a slaver, a businessman. I read this not only as a metaphor, but as a possible description of how things really are. And he makes a very convincing case. Wonderful and important book by a very wise man.

This is an incredible book. Jack Forbes brings up ideals on why we are so destructive in a whole new fashion. All of the other reviews ive read on this have been right on. Unfortunately this book is out of print and is up to 130.00 dollars. But over all this is a very important book that should demand re-printing. I recomend this book to anybody who agrees with the fact that industrial civilization is killing everything in its path...

An amazing perspective on the conditions of mankind. What Forbes tells us is that there is this negative consciousness, this spiritual sickness called "The Wetiko Psychosis" that gets passed on from being to being. It's an inherited twisted perspective on life, and feeling about life.. The bestowers for the last 500 years of the Wetiko disease have come from the European culture, although he mentions that many cultures through out history have endulged in Wetiko behavior, from Egypt, to Rome, to Russia, China. He's also mentioned that the once oppressed may carry on this mentality, this lunacy to a higher degree sometimes then the original oppressors/ colonizers.
There is authenticity in this book that isnt found that often. The reader learns so much about Native American phylosophy. It stays the course with you from beginning to end. When I first read the book, I was thinking to myself "hmm I dont know, thats stretching it isnt it? Cannibalism?" But the way he describes it, and in the way he means it, now I understand. We need to take a more compassionate and loving path. A path of power now because we're running out of time. We're all enduring the effects of it today and will for years to come. He says it wont change unless we change and heal ourselves first.

When I think of cannibalism I think of another person eating the body of another person. I don't think that way after reading this book, cannibalism has a totally different meaning to me.

Could we call it cannibalism when a Christian missionary goes into a Indian Village and gives them no other choice but to see God his way? Why couldn't the missionary just be happy in his own church with his own followers?

Is it cannibalism when a capitalist decides to turn a forest into two-by-fours? Wasn't the forest down the road that was turned into two-by-fours last week enough? Is the person with the chainsaw taking orders a cannibal to?

Forbes makes it clear that there has been, and still are, a lot of people suffering from the cannibal sickness among us who want to consume all life around them. He claims you don't have to eat another person all you have to do is control their heart and mind, you've than consumed them. And to survive in the cannibal's culture you almost have to become a cannibal yourself. It's contagious. It's the sickness that creates the pecking order were all familiar with. It's actually kind of scary, this culture just might consume itself if it isn't careful.

Forbes does show at the end of the book that there is another way. He shows that there has existed, and still exists, different "paths" to take that isn't offered by the cannibals.

A great book to help heal a sick culture.

Eduardo is an awesome person. I saw him speak in person. He is very good at helping to put the audience in the right 'space' in regard to working with/understanding Native people.

A wonderful and deeper telling of Dances with wolves. I liked it very much.

This book is well written and comes from the many seasons of the author life and work. Dr.Gustafson draws from his many years as a Jungian Anayst and his personal experience with his native american friends. There are some wonderful stories here from the authors life and some powerful insights that will be helpful to those seeking a deeper understanding of their soul.

A beautiful work of sensitivity and insight from a man who truly understands not only his soul, but the spirit of the Native Americans he has come to grow with. An amazing Jungian analyst and talented writer, this book opened my eyes to a world I could not see before.

This is an incredibly insightful book by Gustafson, who shares his own story combined with the teachings of NA people and Jungian psychology. Definitely a "must have" book for therapists working among NA populations.

This collection is among my favorites published in recent years. Janet McAdams lyrically links the personal with the political. Her work is engaging, memorable, passionate, yet not didactic--some poems will even keep you awake at night. Many poems reward multiple re-readings. I'm already looking forward to her next book.

As a poet myself, I can only stand in awe of the work in "Island of Lost Luggage." Janet Mc Adams is a major talent. I've turned my initial envy of her gift into a goad to write better and wider myself.

This Island of Lost Luggage is wonderful. Janet McAdams's poems are lyrical and gritty at the same time, swollen with life, drenched with place, and she never seems to take the easy way in or out. Highly recommended!

I used to write poetry, even studied with some of the greats, including C.K. Williams, Ellen Voight and Louise Gluck. But I found that in any workshop, I could rarely tell a great poem from a mediocre one. This made me feel less than smart about poetry. Janet McAdams has helped revive my love for the form, and my sense of poetic savvy. For with "Island of Lost Luggage" I Know I'm in the presence of Great poetry. That is clear from page one. How to say why this is Great isn't as easy, but I'll venture the following: Mc Adams is gifted with rich language, of course, but she is a more than a fine wordsmith. She takes on issues that have huge resonance, that go beyond any mere narcissim. Each time I enter one of her poetic worlds I find more layers within it, more associations building within me. So, Thanks Ms. McAdams for restoring my poetic sensitivity, and for this wonderful book, a gem, that's most highly recommended for all readers, lovers of poetry or not.

Even if poetry isn't your "thing" this book, given the quiet and serious attention it deserves, will unlock many mysteries. Highly Recommended.

This is certainly the best book so far in this series. The action is non-stop, and the tension just keeps increasing. We get a first-hand look at the operation of First Nation-owned gambling casinos, and the effects both good and bad that these facilities have on the First Nation tribes that have them. They bring prosperity and money for programs for the people, but they can also bring unsavoury people and companies to the casino because these people want to take advantage of he money that is being made. This book runs two parallel stories as usual. Father John is trying to determine what happened to an Arapaho who has disappeared. This Arapaho is the pit boss at the casino on the Wind River Reserve. Vicky is working as a lawyer for the casino and uncovers many secrets and frauds that get her into a pack of trouble. And of course, there are dead bodies along the way. The plot eventually melds together, and we have the formidable pair of Father John and Vicky Holden working together to uncover evil, dishonesty and also to unmask a murderer. This series keeps on getting better and better.

Excellent book if you like Native American thrillers. We read a lot of the Thurlo books and Margaret Coel's books are a lot like those. The book keeps you on you seat and guessing all the time about the plot. You won't be able to put the book down once you start.

Margaret Coel casts the dice to spin another tightly plotted mystery on the Wind River Reservation. Lean times force Vicki Holden to do some legal work for the new casino on the reservation though she has doubts as to the easy money flowing to the tribe.
Vickie's path crosses Father John's and their feelings for each other still cloud their judgement despite their best efforts to ignore the regard.
With all mysteries a body turns up that demands justice. Father John and Vicki, both find questions that need answers around the casino. But a new man proves them wrong in their assessment of him, and finds a place in Vickie's heart.
Pages turn till the very end, which provides clues for the next installment in the fine series.
Nash Black, author of TRAVELERS and SINS OF THE FATHERS.

Margaret Coel hits all the right notes in the latest book about Arapaho attorney Vicky Holden and the Wind River Reservation's priest, Father John. The discovery of a dead body at Double Dives brings Father John into an investigation, just as his friend Vicky is offered a job at the Indian reservation's gambling casino. Vicky has her doubts about the casino job, but she is convinced by Adam Lone Eagle, the other attorney at the casino that it would be beneficial to her people. Vicky has been barely making ends meet in her law practice, so she agrees to join Adam. As she learns more about the operation, Vicky becomes suspicious about the legality of some of its practices. The human side of gambling problems is revealed when one of Father John's employees becomes enmeshed in gambling debts. The delicate balancing act of Vicky and Father John's relationship is again addressed in this book, and the possibility of a new romance for Vicky causes them to face some issues that they have chosen to ignore in the past. The beautiful background of the Wyoming reservation, the well-defined characters, and the tightly-woven plot are all typical of this series.

This latests mystery was no exception. The plot involves a casino that has just opened on the Arapaho reservation in Wyoming. Vicki, an Arapaho lawyer, is desperate for work but not very excited when she gets offered some work by the casino -- she has some concerns about the place. In the meantime, Father John, Jesuit priest who runs the reservation mission, has been called on to say some prayers over a body that's been discovered. And that involvement leads to Father John's getting caught up in whatever is going on at the casino, as he attempts to locate someone who has gone missing. So -- you have both Father John and Vicki snooping around the casino, and since they have an unstated special regard for each other, you know their paths will cross -- and they do.

I don't know why I love Coel's mysteries so much, but it has to do with her portrayal of life on the reservation -- I feel like it's a place I know well, and that her fictional characters are real people I've met. The plotting is very good, but that's not why I read the books. My only complaints about her books are 1) enough of Vicki and Father John pining for each other -- Vicki needs to forget about him and find someone available; and 2) I don't like all the violence that usually marks the end of Coel's books -- this one being no exception.

Some enter ministry to comfort people, and other for vain glory. The author is the former. He was faced with hard truths of injustice and, placing God and the down trodded first, his religious superiors dispelled him from ministry. This is not a woe is me by one who suffered greatly for the sake of others; Rather, these are words of wisdom for those who dare to minsiter in truth for the sake of peace and justice and would find themselves between God and Church. I recomend the book for anyone in Native American Concerns and ministry - but only such ones as will abide by Indigenous rights.

I had known of the terrible abuses practised since 1880 among the West Coast Indian schools operated in Canada by the three major church organizations. Never until this incredible book came into my hands had I gauged the enormity of these crimes and the microcosm they represent of the centuries of abuse that we of European extraction have perpetrated on the native peoples of North America.

In this startling book, Kevin Annett describes how, as an ordained minister of the United Church of Canada in a small Vancouver Island community, he discovered almost by accident evidence of the history of incredible abuse over more than a century in the "religious schools" run by the churches and supposedly created to educate coastal Indian children.

He proceeds to lay bare what he calls "the Canadian holocaust," which in a larger sense indicts the 'pale invaders' of the Western Hemisphere. In so doing, he exposed himself to an unbelievable inquisition and persecution at the hands of his employer the United Church. Desperate to cover up his revelations, that Church through its immense power succeeded in stripping him not only of his livelihood and a promising career, but of his family and his reputation.

On more than one occasion physically threatened and attacked by anonymous thugs, he was denied recourse by the courts while being subjected to a farcical kangaroo court devised by the United Church of Canada.

He is afforded little recognition much less help by the Canadian government which, extending back to the 19th Century, was itself complicit in the abominable history of the Church's abuses (and those of the Anglican and Roman Catholic Church "schools" as well).

And then, unbelievably, after he has been unfrocked, expelled from the Church and made the victim of a campaign of falsehood, he is blocked in his attempt to formalize his voluminous factual findings in a thesis toward a Ph. D. degree at his Alma Mater, the University of British Columbia. (He had previously earned a degree in anthropology, by his own choice declined completion of his law degree after two and a half years of study, but had gone on to earn Master's degrees in both History and Theology).

Although having completed all of the course work toward the Ph. D. degree with a grade-point average of 88%, he was mysteriously denied permission to present his thesis toward that degree. (The University, one of the foremost in Canada, was and is substantially endowed by MacMillan Bloedel, the giant forestry company that he had alleged to have figured prominently in the Church's illegal selling of Indian land!)

Today, after 14 years of struggle against enormous adversaries, Kevin Annett has attained a degree of legitimacy in his quest for justice. He has written two books, and written, directed and produced a documentary film, "Unrepentant," which won the award in the "Best Director" category at the New York Independent Film Festival in 2006, and recently premiered in Los Angeles. He has the support of two radio stations in Vancouver and Montreal, he is pastor of a native and white congregation in Vancouver's skid row district, and he has founded an organization under the auspices of the United Nations to document genocide and other abuses.

Never in history, perhaps, has a single man stood up alone against such formidable adversaries, because of his insistence on the truth and justice for native people. And so, Kevin Annett's greatest achievement is not only that he engaged such colossal forces, but that he lays bare the guilt that he insists we must all bear, as did the German people following the Nazi pogroms.

We are equally guilty, Kevin Annett insists, all of us who - as part of the European invasion of the Western World - strove (almost succeeding) to annihilate most of this Hemisphere's 100 million people!

As Martin Luther King claimed on behalf of 22 million black Americans, only when we collectively turn from denial and acknowledge our guilt, can true peace and freedom be declared for this country, this continent, and this hemisphere.

Kevin Annett is worthy of the legacy of Martin Luther King.

He is deserving not merely of a book award, but of The Nobel Peace Prize.

- Betty M. Richeson

I've read a lot of books that have lingered in my memory, but I will never forget this one! I had heard rumors of things that had happened in the Canadian Indian Residential Schools, but never had I heard all of the horrors that were revealed in this book. I recommend this book be widely read, and commend this man for exposing the decades of crimes against the Native people of Canada.

My statements fall flat in comparrison to the revelations of this book. The church and state and corporation in kahoots to take away the land and its resources, at any price. The suffering of the innocent people is beyond description! It is hideous what has been done to them.

I can only imagine the horrors of the families ripped apart by these institutions, children forced into these death-ridden torture chambers in guise of educational instituitons. Parents stripped of their parental rights, while their children were put into the hands of known pedophiles, abused, tortured with medical experiments like lab rats, and a 50% death rate, all intentional genocide.

These crimes have been hidden from sight and were basically unknown to most people until this man took it upon himself to stand up to the 'establishment' and hold them accountable for their horrible deeds.

This is a book that needs to be put into every library, for everyone to read and remember, so that this can never happen again!

I have read this book and passed it on to my son to read, then bought another for myself. I could not believe how much truth is just swept under the rug, and someone as brave as Kevin, to bring out the truth, can be shunned by government and churches alike. This tells me you can't even have faith in all churches. Their day of reckoning is coming. Shame on Canada.

I've just finished reading "Love and Death in the Valley" by Kevin Annett, and it is amazing how this man stood up against the establishment, church & state to expose the horrors he uncovered... The residential schools of Canada were used to steal the land & its resources from the Native people, and part of that goal was accomplished by removing forcibly the children from their homes and forcing them into these government/church "schools" where they were preyed upon by pedophiles, raped, tortured and murdered, some by exposure to TB and others by horrendous medical experimentation, sterilization, etc. Canada wasn't the only place these residential schools were located. They were here in the USA too.

I found it especially interesting that the three-fold entity (church-state & commercial) included the company we know as Weyerhaeuser in the equasion.

There was a rude awakening as to the truths of church-state-company agenda, and the absolute disregard of human life and dignity. Power, greed, manipulation, corruption, at its worst!!!

This is no "conspiracy theory"... this is the real history revealed, and done so in a most excellent way, allowing the voices of the silenced innocents to be heard...FINALLY!!!

I recommend this book to anyone who wants to know the truth about the residential schools forced upon our Indiginous people and the motivation behind it all.

The other book he's written, is "Hidden From History: The Canadian Holocaust" where he becomes a voice of the Native people to tell their stories. It is filled with first-hand testimonials!

In case anyone is interested, they can get it at [...]

Kevin Annett is a very brave soul. A man of truth and integrity. He has dedicated his life to expose this horrendous, henious activity.. which may still be going on in parts of this world.

Donald T. Phillips does an exceptional job at narrating the life of the late great Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. He does an incredible job in tying in the aspects of Dr. King's life as a man, and activist together with the principals of Leadership.

He breaks down the book into 4 sections, that each details the start and end of the American Civil Rights movement. Phillips does an amazing job at chronicling the events that most shaped the philosophy of Dr. King.

I truly enjoyed this book because it helped me realize that it is possible for me to achieve my goals using the same techniques that Dr. King used. The book does a great job at outlining how a normal person can create change the way Dr. King did. Whether you live in turbulent times like those in which the Civil Rights took place or not.

I recommend this book to anyone in a leadership position to those who aspire to be leaders, but mostly to those with a goal to succeed. The knowledge you will acquire with this book is invaluable to future successes.

The book targets all, but I think it specifically aims to inspire African- Americans especially those who wish to be in leadership positions. The book in general is a great read for businesses and for groups in general. It informs the audience about the dynamics of groups and how to work through the problems that groups face.

It helps inform leaders as to the advantages and disadvantages of being a leader. Overall the book is a great read. And you will truly enjoy it.

Donald Phillips did a wonderful job of telling the story of Martin Luther King Jr. from his childhood to his death, and connecting it all to a marvelous leadership style. Being a student of leadership studies and a fan of Martin Luther King Jr., I chose this book as a study of both subjects. Having read it, I have to say I learned more about leadership from this book than any other I have read. However, I am no longer a fan of MLK......... he is now a hero of mine.

As Donald Phillips points out, for every major turning point in American history, creative leaders - right for the times and uniquely suited to the task - assume the mantle of leadership. Donald Phillips not only describes how MLK ended up at the mantle, but how and why he was the right person for the job.

MLK's movement is not the same civil rights movement being pushed by the self-serving, so-called, activists today. Read this book, you will learn about a true leader and what a true leader is. It is easy reading and inspiring. Highly recommended.

I am a student and a teacher of leadership skills, and I have found no better example than Martin Luther King Jr. This book combines the history of King's movement, but also chronicles the qualities which made King great. The text is easy to read, and fascinating. Martin Luther King, Jr. On Leadership should be required reading for anyone who hopes to impact their world. The famed Harvard psychologist Lawrence Kohlberg, who studied moral development, named King as one of the greatest moral thinkers in history. Read this book, and you will understand why.

I picked up this book simply thinking it would be a great story about leadership, but the underlying history of Martin Luther King is riveting as well. The leadership stories translate well to business and personal leadership--they speak to (all) people wanting to be part of a higher, unifying mission. If you like to "mark-up" the margins with thoughts keep a pen handy for this one. Its a book I talked about with colleagues and family more than any other I've read.

Martin Luther King, Jr.'s "I Have A Dream" speech was voted the most electrifying public address of the twentieth century. It takes some kind of a leader to give that kind of a speech. Donald T. Phillips presents the ideals of leadership that Martin Luther King Jr. followed in an overview of the history of the civil rights struggle. Phillips describes the techniques King used at various stages of the civil rights battle. He also shares King's comments on leadership. Many of the principles will be quite familiar: listen to learn, lead by being led, awaken direct action, encourage creativity and involve the people. However, the book is especially interesting when it demonstrates how King put these principles into practice. This well-organized, well-written book is clear, direct, and easy to read. While it is written for the general public (especially for African-Americans and those interested in civil rights), we [...] find this book interesting for all managers and executives, particularly those who like to learn the lessons of history.

This is an easy read text, organized well for quick reference and very helpful in counseling.

Excellent book, those written more recently have different agenda, but this book was excellent in terms of creating a way to understand issues specific to Native people and counseling.

This book gives a brilliant insight into the issues that Native Americans are facing as a colonialized people. I don't believe America as a whole has come to the realization of just what it did to the indigenous people and the traumatizing effect the American Dream has had on the original inhabitants. To make matters worse, these people are normally treated by individuals that only come from the Newtonian-Descartian worldview of present day mainstream psychology. When treating people from another cultural background, you need to take into account WHERE they are coming from, and what their worldview are. To not do so, is just to continue the cultural genocide that has been going on for far too long. A highly recommendable book.

This is one of the best books that I have ever read. I see it as basic material for any counselor or therapist. While the focus is on Native Americans, it is relevant for work with clients of all cultures. The discussion of intergenerational trauma and the soul wound is particularly well done. Highly readable and it can change the way you practice. Profound!

It's been many years since the first time I read this book, it was, and remains, a very powerful and very relevant analysis of anger turned inward in the Native American community. It is, nevertheless, a work that confronts a very sensitive issue in the United States of America - the impact on current generations of genocidal colonization practices against long-established Native American communities by European colonizers. Do not read this book if you believe the Americas were pristine, unpopulated lands waiting to be "discovered" by Columbus, or Erikson, or any other European. Do read this book if you want to understand why other colonized cultures have turned to violence and dogma to seek revenge for the foreign imposition of arbitrary and intentionally destructive rulerships.