The grandson of both Crazy Horse and Sitting Bull, Mathew King was a respected Elder of the Lakota (Sioux) Nation. His personal history, vision, and insights are compiled in this volume, structured to read like a conversation between trusted friends. King speaks about Native American spirituality, personal responsibility to ones land and people, and the struggles of the Lakota people to coexist with white people. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.

The late Mathew King, a respected Elder of the Lakota (Sioux) Nation, was an eloquent spokesman & one of the preeminent leaders of the great Indian Reawakening that began in the late 1960s. He gave political & spiritual counsel to the American Indian Movement during & after the 1973 "Occupation" of Wounded Knee. This book gives the reader the opportunity to share in the richness of Lakota history, tradition, & beliefs in Mathew King's own words. It provides Lakota history & insight from a great political & spiritual leader of that nation. Committed to his people & to the land that was his home, he leaves behind a legacy for the Lakota people.

This volume compares and contrasts contemporary theories of cognition, modes of perception, and learning from cross-cultural perspectives. The participants were asked to consider and assess the question of whether people from different cultures think differently. Moreover, they were asked to consider whether the same approaches to teaching and development of thinking will work in all cultures as well as they do in Western, literate societies.

Pagans in the Promised Land provides a unique, well-researched challenge to U.S. federal Indian law and policy. It attacks the presumption that American Indian nations are legitimately subject to the plenary power of the United States.