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A Seat at the Table: Huston Smith In Conversation with Native Americans on Religious Freedom

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First, I love Mr. Smith's style of sharing conversations instead of just giving facts and figures. I had no idea that Native Americans were not allowed to practice their faith or that they needed permits to go to their sacred mountains! What an eye opener this book was for me. The Native American culture of revering Mother Earth and all that dwells on it resonates with me and I'm so deeply saddened when I think what has happened in the past and what we are still doing to harm the Earth.

An excellent look into the minds and souls of the 21st century Native Americans. Bravo once again to Huston Smith!

an utterly honest and open-minded book that describes clearly the point of view of the native American people, explains it and then validates it as equal with all other religions and cultural approaches to the world. It showed me that we would, in fact, be better off as human beings if we subscribed more to the native American point of view than we have to the values we are so ardently espousing in our behavior and our judgments. Truly, this takes us back to basics and to an old new way of being in the world.