Return to Creation: A Survival Manual for Native and Natural People

By Manitonquat

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0943404207
• ISBN13: 9780943404202
• Release Date: January 1991
• Publisher: Bear Tribes
• Length: 188 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.5" x 0.5" x 5.8"
• Age Range: 12 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 7 and higher

Customer Reviews

Return to Creation

This is one of my favorite books of all time. I continually buy them and give them to friends and students. In this book are lovely stories told by Manitonquat about a way of living according to our original instructions and open hearts. The way of the circle that includes everybody instead of the competitive way that we of the Anglo Saxon culture have been taught to live as contestants with each other competing for resources. Manitonquat learned from his grandfather a Wompanog of New England these beautiful stories and attitudes towards people and all creation. These were the people who met the first Pilgrims, the people of Metacom. It shows another way of being human, the way of beauty, not the way of violence. It gives me hope that there is another way to live a peaceful loving way.

A respected Wampanoag professor replies

The negative reviews here are not reviews of the book, but of the author, based on false information about him that has been circluated without actual knowledge of the author or his nation. Here is a view by a well known and respected Wampanoag, a teacher of Native Studies at the university of Maine from a letter to the author: Thanks for sharing these stories---i have always enjoyed the manner and style You share these Visions of the Heart. So, Netomp, You have my greatest affection and support. i will offer this as a supportive statement: Manitonqat's unique and wondrous manner of sharing ancient and contemporary stories of the Wampanoag follows in the profoundly valued tradition of the Pauwau. Especially applied to the Indigenous Nations and Peoples of the Northeast, maintaining a People's History is both a fine art and an evocative response to the incoherence, tyranny, and cynicism of modernity. Manitonqat is one of the Wampanoag Nation's leading national treasures. As this is offered in the deepest respect for You as a person and Your wonderfully inspiring style. gk gkisedtanamoogk

life guide for non native people

THIS BOOK IS A FANTASTIC REVELATION FOR NON-NATIVE PEOPLES WHO ARE CAPTIVES OF THE PREVIOUS WHITE CHRISTIAN TEACHINGS THAT PRESENT THE NATIVE PEOPLES AS UNSPIRITUAL. I FOUND THIS BOOK TO BE A GOOD CANDIDATE FOR A GUIDE TO LIVING A TRULY SPIRITUAL EXISTANCE. IF OUR CURRENT POLITICIANS WERE FOLLOWING THESE PRECEPTS OUR WORLD WOULD BE ON A PATH OF HEALING, RATHER THAN ONE OF DESTRUCTION.

a vision of health and wholeness

Manitonquat (Medicine Story) offers this book not only as practical information for a healthy way of life, but as a prayer for all Humankind, all brothers and sisters. It is easy to call someone a culture vulture; it is more difficult to distill what you know to be valuable and find ways to share it with others on this Earth. The time I spent with Medicine Story helped my life and his book has helped me on my journey of what some people call "the recovery from Western civilization." He not only proposes but lives the way of peace and partnership between men and women. He shares this way of peace in prisons with people society has thrown away. I don't think he deserves to be called a "plastic shaman." Read his work and see for yourself.

20th century Wampanoag Indian world view

This book conveys a living, native philosophy written by a Wampanoag story teller and writer. Medicine Story tries to draw the linear, goal-oriented 20th century person into the circular, nature-based world view of an Indian. It is a deeply philosophical and spiritual book and is a breath of fresh air to those of us who are tired of nature-dominant, capitalist thinking. Medicine Story has the gift of explaining in a poetic, magical way. You feel as if you are there with him. If you are familiar with Massachusetts, it's even better. This book crept and continues to creep into my soul. It is my antidote to stress and my guide to redefining my life, one circle at a time. I have never read anything like it.