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48 pages, paperback, 5.5 x 8.5
First printing was 2011, so this is a limited edition, second printing with four color photos.
Fundraiser: all the proceeds go to the recently started Akantu Institute, founded by Tiokasin Ghosthorse.
$30 (or e-mail if you want to pay more, or pay by check) + mailing: mankh@allbook-books.com
1 book USA- $32.00
2 books USA - $63.25
1 book Canada - $34.00
PDF-version $15 (will be emailed after receiving notification of payment - the PDF is 49 pages)
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We must begin with the misrepresentation and
transform it into what is true. That is, we must
uncover the source of the misrepresentation,
otherwise hearing what is true won’t help us.
The truth cannot penetrate when something is
taking its place.
– Ludwig Wittgenstein
We are the children of the sun the seven nations the
seventh generation the indigo nation
I want my black hills back
He Sapa Kin Wiyopeya Unkiyapi kte sni yelo!!
We will Not Sell the Black Hills!
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In order for Mother Earth to continue to live
Men have to give up their male ego
And admit that the religions, the politics, the patriarchy
in general is at the fault
We must turn our machismos into the fodder that it is
and let the seeds grow in the manner that the Creator
intended
We must relearn how to be men in a non patronizing
manner, in a non matronizing manner so there remains
a balance
A place where nobody hides their hearts
In this illusion there is nothing to compare it to
In the reality where the human being knows that we are
older than America
In the world where there flies no flags of any
“-ocracies or isms”.
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The decision to keep still, to remain silent is not out of fear
but out of knowledge.
Lakota elders say, the Red and Blue days, began in 1987.
The ending time means things change, people realize they
are changing, …when the moon and the sun turn color it is
the ending time. They said that each time our ignorance
and egos are reduced by one iota and we become
cognizant of our humility and aware of our connection and
accountability, our life has begun and ended, the red and
blue days, the ending time, the prophecy, the cosmology
that exists in the Lakota worldview. Every time we take
a breath, we breathe in a continual state of spirituality
because each breath is another life.
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In the whirling distant
the streams of tattered clouds
Hang ragged along the horizon
the lightning flashes mumbling vastness
remain the last fingers of light
where the voices nest with the breath of babies
and the rustling trees whisper the coming night
the staccato rhythm of crickets
and the soft female rains fall upon the shoulders
of the buffalo
I wait for the dazzling morning star.
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To Listen to Mankh’s interview/conversation with Tiokasin, 71 minutes - from 2012
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