The Light People

American Book Award To see what your friends thought of this book, please sign up. To ask other readers questions about The Light People , please sign up. Lists with This Book. I read this book for a Native American Novel course I'm taking for my major, and my class was lucky enough to video chat with the author, Gordon Henry, to discuss his work. I thought this novel was especially thought-provoking, particularly the format and the repetitive inclusion of the letter X as a marker of a presence and an absence at the same time - very clever.

While it was a complex work with a complicated family tree, it was an interesting process, attempting to find the link in all the I read this book for a Native American Novel course I'm taking for my major, and my class was lucky enough to video chat with the author, Gordon Henry, to discuss his work. While it was a complex work with a complicated family tree, it was an interesting process, attempting to find the link in all the stories as the chapters went on.

There's so much going on in this book that I can't begin to do it justice. Structurally, Henry maps out the importance of kinship, history, and storytelling by connecting one chapter to the next, working backwards in time to explore what it means to be Ojibwe on the Fineday reservation.

1. The People Are The Light — alisha b. wormsley?
2. The Music Of The Night;
3. LOS MISTERIOS AMOROSOS DEL ROSARIO (Spanish Edition)!

Thematically, he turns over the idea of Christianity, schooling, treaties, politicians, higher education, traditional healing, and art, not just as the subject matter of particular chapters, but in his prose, sli There's so much going on in this book that I can't begin to do it justice. Thematically, he turns over the idea of Christianity, schooling, treaties, politicians, higher education, traditional healing, and art, not just as the subject matter of particular chapters, but in his prose, slipping into haiku, into the legaleze of lawyers and judges, into the self-congratulatory, academic-speak of anthropologists.

Time passes, but the passage of time is not always important; places change in meaningful ways, often reflecting environmental destruction from outside the rez, but trees and prairie and water have their own stories. The Vietnam war intrudes; death and dying occur in a dozen different ways.

It's masterful, and I'll be thinking about it for a long time, unpacking the imagery and poetry, thinking through the lingering bird-song of 'we the people' at the end.

1. From Pages 09 to Kindle Format in Minutes.
2. LED Lighting South West | The Lighting People Ltd | The Lighting Compnay.
3. Un soltero muy atractivo (Deseo) (Spanish Edition)?
4. Implikationen aus der sozialwissenschaftlichen Forschung für den Aufbau von Online Kundenbeziehungen im Retail Banking (German Edition)?
5. .
6. Mrs.Chiccosa (Mr. & Mrs. Vol. 2) (Italian Edition)?

Inventive, original, thought-provoking, and wise. Each chapter adds on to the previous one like a turtle beneath a turtle; the links seem to reach as far as the cosmos until mid-span, in which the novel begins to retreat back on itself and new resolutions become apparent. What's more, some of the chapters have Vonnegut, John White kinds of satire esp. The concluding chapter where Oskinaway trie Absolutely amazing novel: The concluding chapter where Oskinaway tries to teach a crow to speak but succeeds only as far as "We the People" carries immense ponder-ables. In my view, this is a minor classic and should be read by intelligent, sensitive seekers.

Mar 02, Mark Valentine rated it it was amazing. Apr 10, jeanette rated it it was amazing. Gordon Henry Ojibwe is a master of prose.

Ask Us a Question

He has multiple narrators flowing into multiple narrations. There is humor and sorrow in the book as Oskinaway learns about his tribal heritage. There is also lots of laughs in the chapter - Requiem for a Leg - you have to read this book - it is like no other. He is an incredibly kind and intelligent individual.

Nov 27, Bruce rated it liked it Shelves: This work is similar, but more organized. It is essentially a series of vignettes about certain interconnected people on the reservation and some of the dreams they have and things that happen to them.

The Light People

Nov 11, Felix rated it it was amazing. Stories within stories abound.

The structure the story by itself was interesting. An unexpected piece of Native-American literature.

See a Problem?

Billy Stratton rated it it was amazing Dec 17, Mike Langdon rated it it was amazing Oct 12, Karen rated it it was amazing Dec 17, I've always never feared, so then the dreams turned into explanations The beings showed themselves in my dreams, they were tall people with blue eyes and blond hair, one that is man and one that is woman.

I then had explanations of why and how and what we are doing here.

• Frequently Asked Questions?
• Book | MSU Press | The Light People.
• People of the Light.
• People of the Light?

And they told me they are like us, just a better version of us. They also told me I was chosen to do a task. I must not tell what my task is, but when the time comes, it will save us. They told me I was the 5th member of light and they told me I was a disciple but not for religion. They told me things about the universe that I must not say until the time comes.

LED Lighting Taunton | The Lighting People Ltd | LED Lighting Design

And they told me not to view as the human race as different races, and told me we must not follow any religions because we are practically worshiping other beings that don't belong to our planets. They also said that we must also not show that we are an aggressive species and we must also not show ourselves as people that will fall to our knees.

And people that will not be scared, because it's what fear that feeds some types of other non terrestrial beings that make us fear. I'm not telling so much detail, but I'm not showing any details to not make you think that I'm crazy. They also told me other things, but other things that I also do not want to share. Anyways they told me that I passed the test of fear and that I will benefit the human race and that we will not become just an experiment but an independent nation that will advance and join other nations.

This is not Scientology, but it's the benefit to our war. We will become independent as long as i listen to my guide and not fail.