Noble Red Man: A one-of-a-kind spoken-word performance by Harvey Arden

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A one-of-a-kind spoken-word performance by Harvey Arden with haunting music by Jeff Foreman "
 
"Amazing CD--will rend your heart and transform your mind." 

When we want wisdom we go up on the hill
And we talk to God, Wakan Tanka.
Four days and four nights.
No food.No water.
~
Yes, you can "
You can talk to God up on a hill
 all by yourself.
You can say anything you want.
Nobody`s there to listen to you.
Just you and God and nobody else
~
It`s a great feeling to be talking to God.
I know.
 I did it way up on the mountain.
The wind was blowing.
It was dark.
It was cold.
And I stood there
And I talked to God.
 
                                                                              "Mathew King, Chief NOBLE RED MAN

Over the past few years I`ve given readings/lectures on the Wisdomkeepers at the Library of Congress, Harvard, Columbia, CalTech, USC, the University of South Dakota (Vermillion), Briarcliffe College (Sioux City, IA), etc etc etc  I`ve given readings from Leonard Peltier`s PRISON WRITINGS: MY LIFE IS MY SUN DANCE and Mathew King`s book NOBLE RED MAN to audiences in schools, churches, museums, private homes, coffee shops, public auditoriums and theaters in New York, Toronto, Los Angeles, Atlanta, Boston, New Orleans, Washington DC, Cape Cod, Western Massachusetts, New Hampshire etc.and scores of smaller towns.  I`ve also given scores of readings at Borders and Barnes & Noble (and many, many other) bookstores across the country; I`ve been interviewed on NPR (national "Public Interest" show, twice), also on many many other radio stations.  I was for 23 years a staff writer at National Geographic Magazine.  My books have been translated into French, Spanish, German, Italian, Dutch, Korean, and Japanese.

Anyway, I`m willing to put my old body on the line anytime it`s needed for the Cause, but I can often be of more of use here at my basement-study PC, since I plug into lots of places in the Indian and international indigenous worlds, though I`m a white guy myself.  Lot`s of people know me and, hopefully, trust me.  You can check me out ad nauseum with a Google search on my name. (someone told me she found 22,000 entries on me with a few simple searches)  I still spend lots of time working for and with Leonard Peltier.  I visited Leonard half a dozen times at Leavenworth..  Also I have a few novels, plays, screenplays and other nonfiction books that I`m trying to give birth to lest they be, alas, stillborn.  MY LIFE IS MY SUN DANCE "a dramatic presentation of Leonard`s book with the formidable Lakota actor Doug Foote "opened last month in Boulder, CO., to mesmerized audiences and rave reviews.

My latest book, with Seneca Wisdomkeeper Grandma Edna Gordon, is VOICE OF THE HAWK ELDER-- available now at www.haveyouthought.com.

Like Mat King used to say, "You`re not too bad for a white guy, Harvey. You`re lucky.  Tunkashila has a job for you to do and you`re going to do it!"
 
Regarding why I, a white guy, am so involved in the indigenous world, I subscribe to the philosophy expressed in this statement by Australian Aboriginal Elder Lilla Watson: 

There`s also lots of audio and other interesting stuff at www.haveyouthought.com
Check it out!

Author/Editor of Wisdomkeepers: Meetings with Native American Spiritual Elders
Dreamkeepers: A Spirit-Journey into Aboriginal Australia
Noble Red Man: Lakota Wisdomkeeper Mathew King
Travels in a Stone Canoe: The Return to the Wisdomkeepers
Prison Writings: My Life is My Sun Dance by Leonard Peltier
Have You Thought of Leonard Peltier Lately?
White Buffalo Teachings  by Arvol Looking Horse
Voice of the Hawk Elder by Seneca Wisdomkeeper Edna Gordon

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