The Sacred Hill Within: A Dakota/Lakota World View [Paperback]

Little Crow (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: June 25, 1999

This book is an introduction to concepts from the Dakota/Lakota world view and their applicability in contemporary society. It focuses on the deceptively simple message that everything is sacred, everything is connected and everything is accountable, and makes theory and philosophy concrete and available to anyone who cares to look beneath the surface while, at the same time, demonstrating how these ideas can be applied breath to breath, moment to moment. It includes possibilities and choices, based on an alternative world-view, which can create major life transformations.

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Review

In this brief series of presentations, Little Crow has distilled the essence of human existence in such a way that anyone seeking a spiritual life can have one. The implications of Little Crow's teachings are profound and without equal in this reader's experience. -- Dr. Lester B. Brown, Director, American Indian Studies, California State University, Long Beach

Sound advice for the 21st century! Little Crow has given us a road map for the new millennium. Surpassing an interest in things Native American, Little Crow has once again given us insight into our own unique sacredness in the simplicity of breath. His words stand as sentinels in a desert of false Indian stereotypes. -- Douglas Casgraux, Author/Journalist

About the Author

Little Crow is a Dakota/Lakota poet, educator, lecturer and spiritual leader who lives the faith of his oral traditions by applying them to his everyday life and the contemporary situations in which he finds himself. In addition to co-founding the American Indian Church, more commonly known as The Gathering, with his wife Alice Bryant, Little Crow has appeared on radio and television, in films and has been, for many years, a lecturer at California State University, Long Beach. He currently resides in Southern California.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 142 pages
• Publisher: One World Pub; 1st edition (June 25, 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0963544055
• ISBN-13: 978-0963544056
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 5.8 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4.8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,108,727 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Must reading as we enter the 21st millenium, August 16, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: The Sacred Hill Within: A Dakota/Lakota World View (Paperback)

This book is a roadmap for finding your way out of 21st century stress, violence and emptiness. It is clearly written, based upon the wisdom of the First Americans, and how that wisdom (oral tradition) can be put to use in bringing balance to comtemporary living. This book parallels the wisdom shared each Sunday morning at The Gathering in Garden Grove, California. What you hear at The Gathering is what you get in reading The Sacred Hill Within. If you're desperate in getting a handle on day-to-day insanities, get ahold of this book. It will do your spirit a world of good.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Sacred Hill Within: Basics For Everyday Living, March 12, 2002

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This review is from: The Sacred Hill Within: A Dakota/Lakota World View (Paperback)

Little Crow shares his own personal intrepetation of his Dakota/Lakota world view and how to apply the sacred truths of not only taking accountability for all of one's actions in daily living, but for learning to take responsibility for every thought we create within ourselves, which, in turn, affects everyone and everything else in the universe.

This is a well-written book and Little Crow is succinct and to the point. If you start applying what he writes about, be ready for some life-changing experiences. This book is not for the lazy person but rather for one who is ready to "get up off your spiritual ass and go out and live your life," as the author so eloquently puts it!

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Everything is the same only in a different form., July 21, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: The Sacred Hill Within: A Dakota/Lakota World View (Paperback)

This spiritual human being "Little Crow" has been an instrument for my healing and growth since 1991. Since attending "The Gathering", held each Sunday in Garden Grove, California, I have had the blessing of many insights and spiritual people to join me on my path. The tenants of the American Indian Church simplify the altruistic beliefs of most indigenous peoples, hence "World Views". A wonderful gift for those that wish to seek their own individual sacredness.