Voices in the Stones: Life Lessons from the Native Way young adult poet Gwen Nell Westerman builds

poet Gwen Nell Westerman builds a world in words that reflects the past

fate and history

gazing skyward

” —American Historical Review

Voices in the Stones: Life Lessons from the Native Way young adult poet Gwen Nell Westerman buildsKent Nerburn here draws on his three decades living and working among Native peoples to offer stories and reflections that reveal what the ways of Native Americans have to teach us all about giving, sharing, grieving, and celebrating. Nerburn takes readers inside a Native feast that highlights respect for elders, to a nearly forgotten Nez Perce battlefield, and to both the traditional burial of a young man and the reinterment of the ancient bones of