To You We Shall Return: Lessons About Our Planet from the Lakota

To You We Shall Return: Lessons About Our Planet from the Lakota

<div><div><div><I>“Grandmother, you who listen and hear all, you from whom all good things come…It is your embrace we feel when we return to you…”</I>  This traditional Lakota prayer to Grandmother Earth opens Joseph Marshall III's newest work, a meditation on our connection to the land and an exhortation to respect it. Using a combination of personal anecdote, detailed history, and Lakota tales, Marshall takes us back to his childhood and shows us how we, too, can learn to love our planet.<br>Although he was educated in Euro-American schools, Marshall had the benefit of growing up with wise grandparents who taught him never to walk a path without knowing the trail from which he'd come: that the bow does not make the hunter, and above all, that the earth can be boundlessly generous-if we can learn to accept its gifts.<br></div></div></div>