Mohawk Blood: A Native American Quest

By Michael Baughman

Book Overview

Baughman searches his past for the meaning of his forebears' sacred traditions in today's world. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1558213767
• ISBN13: 9781558213760
• Release Date: January 1995
• Publisher: Lyons and Burford, Publishers, NY
• Length: 127 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.5" x 0.5" x 6.3"

Customer Reviews

A Touching Memoir

I'd highly recommend this book to anyone interested in learning about how an American Indian with pride in his history copes with living in the modern age. Through his writing, he demonstrates that despite the effort by Euro-Americans (and this is coming from a Euro-American), the sincere beauty of the natural lifestyle of the native peoples of this land has not been completely wiped out.

Very good book

See the previous review. He/she describes it in a nutshell. Just wanted to chime in that I had read this book and loved it. I discovered this author through another book, which was amazing: A River Seen Right. Highly recommend both books.

Some books stay with you after you have read them.

This one has stayed with me. As a nature-lover and one interested in Native American culture, I walked away from this book feeling I gained something by reading it. It is neither dense nor preachy, so it makes for an easy read. _Mohawk Blood_ is written by a descendent of the great Mohawk leader Joseph Brant, but the focus of the book is not past battles or politics. Rather, almost in a short story form, the author shares some timeless lessons learned from Brant, describes interaction with the natural world in a breathtaking manner, and touches on the socio-economic status of Native families. I could not put this book down.