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A Tribe Returned

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I found "A Tribe Returned" to be a very well written book that certainly held the reader's interest. Like most books about past lives, skeptics will point out a few inconsistencies and then make the claim that this disproves the entire idea of past lives. But people must stop and consider how good is their own memory of events that occurred in this life only twenty or thirty years ago? There will likely be inconsistencies when compared to the memories of other people who experienced the same event with them, but this doesn't mean the event didn't occur. Overall, I found "A Tribe Returned" to be an excellent book that certainly held my interest to the end.

I purchased this book because the author personally performed my first regression. Amazingly, I also saw that I was a member of a Native American tribe. Believe me -- I was a skeptic myself, until I received validation of the events later that night and the next day. However, I prefer not to give the details here. Excellent book by an excellent regressionist.

When I began reading "A Tribe Returned", I couldn't put it down. The "coincidences" had my hair standing on end and my heart beating. The pictures were evocative and powerful. The combination was incredible.

And I found this book to be particularly inspiring. It has given me permission to look at my own story, in this lifetime and others, to face my own fears, my own pains and to be willing to be vulnerable in front of others and myself. The people in this story heal in real, tangible, healthy ways. Ways that we all want to heal in life.

I recommend this true story for anyone interested in past-lives and spiritual connections, but also for anyone seeking a richer, more meaningful existence.

I read this book several years ago and it was an experience.It brought to light what we do to and have done to people in the past that is different than us,I also felt it was my story,it was a life that I had lived and maybe it wasn't that life time it doesn't make any difference.It dosen't make any difference if it isn't historically correct,You have to listen to the hearts that are talking.It is a book of heart and love and a people that doesn't want this to happen again ever.

I had really mixed feelings after reading this book. On the one hand, it was clear that the people who shared this experience together got healing and grew closer together from it. But as to what that experience really was, that's another question altogether.

Although I believe in reincarnation, I'm also a person who wants to see some documentation that fits the historical facts. There were just too many discrepancies between the "tribe" as Cunningham described it, and the real Oglala (Lakota Sioux) people I lived among in South Dakota. The "Indian ceremonies" she describes are not very authentic, either.

One could argue that "times have changed" and the current ceremonies are not what the Natives did 200 years ago. But how do we reconcile a hereditary Chief as described in "A Tribe Returned" with the real Oglala people, who had no such social structure? (And they didn't have "princesses," either.)

Also, if the channeled portrait of "Mother Earth" on the cover is wearing Oglala clothing, then she is cross-dressed! The style shirt and beadwork is definitely a man's pattern. Equally puzzling was a reference to blue-coated soldiers in what was supposed to be the 1700's. There were no U.S. soldiers in Indian country at that time, but if they had been, they would have been dressed more like George Washington, not U.S. Cavalry.

It is my impression that the "tribe" may well have been a group fantasy. (The author herself raises that possibility.) This does not negate the value of the group therapy that took place among the tribe's members, but I am very skeptical that this was really a case of a Native tribe returned. Unless that tribe happens to be the one that the Native peoples call "Wannabees."

I admit that it's been qute a few years since I read this book but I still have a very warm spot in my heart when I think of it. Janet Cunningham's story is amazing!

Whether or not it actually happened as the people recalled it, is almost not the point. The fact that so much healing happened through this experience gives a certain value to it. However, if I had to bet I would put my money on the fact that it did occur. Some of the reviewers pick about the color of the oncoming soldiers uniforms or the beading on the shirt on the cover, but this misses the whole point of the book.

Reincarnation is not a mainstream belief in our culture so any book that deals with it is going to be attacked. I applaud Ms. Cunningham for her courage in writing the book. Personally I think that reincarnation and past-life regression therapy is an idea whose times has come. When one has experienced a lifetime of a person in another race, sex, or economic status, he can no longer see such a person as "other." Racism, sexism, all kinds of divisions between people will be vanished when we finally open our minds to the fact that we have all been there. Thanks to Janet Cunningham for writing this book and bringing that time closer.