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by Gabriel Horn
Paraview Special Editions, 2003
ISBN: 1931044554
Autobiography, 300 pages
Paperback, $15.95 |
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Excerpt From the Foreword to Native Heart
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Where have we been? Where are we going? Why are we here?
I believed that writing Native Heart would serve as a living
testimony that addressed these spiritual questions, not only
regarding a nation or nations, but also in a very personal way. I
believed that the most powerful statement that Native Heart
makes is that a people, and a person, can retain integrity and
dignity in the face of a systematic and genocidal assault on their
culture, beliefs, and identity. I believed that the legacy of
Native Heart would be to help provide a link with the previous
generations of native hearts. I still believe.
I had hoped that Native Heart would create a greater and
deeper understanding of an indigenous philosophy that’s in utter
contrast to the mentality of civilizations that have inflicted an
environmental holocaust on our world. I had hoped that Native
Heart could help readers discover a more personal and
compassionate philosophy. I had hoped that Native Heart would
record some of the history that was, and still is, the United States
of America. I had hoped that by witnessing South Africa grant
freedom to its political prisoner, Nelson Mandela, the United States
would free its Native American political prisoner of more than
twenty-five years, Leonard Peltier. I still have hope.
When I reflect upon what I believe is the spirit of this
autobiographical novel, when I consider the hopes and people that
inspired its writing, when I take into account the conditions of our
world as it exists today, I see a need to make Native Heart
available to new readers, and I am grateful that Paraview Special
Editions has made this possible.
May Native Heart continue to offer belief and hope to any
reader who is prepared to take a journey through a life and into a
heart that has been touched by the Great Mystery.
© Gabriel Horn 2003 |
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