The Girl Who Sang to the Buffalo
A Child, an Elder, and the Light from an Ancient Sky

The Girl Who Sang to the Buffalo: A Child, an Elder, and the Light from an Ancient Sky By Kent Nerburn This time Nerburn starts having vivid dreams. They’re relentless, confounding, and ominous. Eventually, they propel him into his third encounter with the American Indian world of Dan the Elder; Grov......more

Once again author Kent Nerburn brings the reader on a Journey - capitalization entirely intentional - not only into the Lakota lands his friends call home, but into the experience of being a First Nations person in America, as understood through the eyes, ears and heart of a someone who hs the best......more

Kent Nerburn's new The Girl Who Sang to the Buffalo: A Child, an Elder, and the Light from an Ancient Sky is a wonder. The final volume in a trilogy that is neither Western-style history nor fiction, it does what neither can do on their own: take you into the mind, and now also the spiritual awarene......more

I just read all 3 of Nerburn's "Dan" trilogy (The Wolf at Twilight, Neither Wolf nor Dog and this book) in about 10 days. I have mixed feelings about these books. On the one hand, they contain a lot of wisdom, supposedly passed to the author by a Lakota elder named Dan. Nerburn does a good job of us......more

I gave this book 5 stars because 4 stars didn't seem adequate. This is not going to be an easy review to write. I came across this book randomly while on vacation in my parents small hometown library in the Dakotas. I didn't read the back of the book. I just grabbed it because it seemed different th......more