Walking Thunder: Diné Medicine Woman (Profiles in Healing series)

By Bradford P. Keeney

Book Overview

A traditional Dine (Navajo) medicine woman, Walking Thunder, tells her life story and describes her healing methods using native plants, sand paintings, and other medicinal ways in this first-person account. As a practitioner of the peyote ceremony, she shares her indigenous understanding of the world of spirits evoked by this botanical sacrament. Photographs illustrate the ceremonies and ritual practices and the accompanying CD features traditional Dine storytelling as well as sacred songs to evoke the experience of Walking Thunder's life and healing.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0918172306
• ISBN13: 9780918172303
• Release Date: April 2001
• Publisher: Leete'S Island Books
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 2.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 10.0" x 1.1" x 7.0"

Customer Reviews

Walking Thunder

This amazing woman has shown much of what is denied to most outsiders. Her information helped me understand many traditions that I have been wondering about. She explains the whys of traditions. I found myself reading her words aloud with a Navajo accent as I became engrosed in this book. Her pictoral history of the last century of Dine gives us a look into the real lives of the people.

A Dine woman healer living her walk....

Walking Thunder immerses herself as a healer and delights in being human. Her rich heritage, generous heart and possessing a full understanding that she is the vessel the holy ones work through, makes this an "enriching read." Written wisdom is not the same as shared lived wisdom. She shares many lessons from her teachers and her abundant respect of Mother Earth is humbling. Less you think all medicine people are humorless, her laughter and pranks can be heard throughout the book. Walking Thunder is respectful of her culture, elders, family, friends, and Mother Earth. You can experience this from her voice on the compact disc that is included with the book. For those who want to further their appreciation of medicine work, while deepening their understanding of The People, this is the book for you.