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The hollow tree : fighting addiction with traditional native healing / Herb Nabigon.

Title: The hollow tree : fighting addiction with traditional native healing / Herb Nabigon.
Author: Nabigon, Herb
Publication: Montreal ; Ithaca : McGill-Queen's University Press, c2006.

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xix, 118 p. : ill.; 21 cm.

Summary

"Before discovering native healing methods, Herb Nabigon could not imagine a life without alcohol. The Hollow Tree, tells the story of his struggle to overcome addiction with the help of the spiritual teachings and brotherly love of his Elders. Nabigon had spent much of his life wrestling with self-destructive impulses, feelings of inferiority and resentment, and alcohol abuse when Eddie Bellerose, an Elder, introduced him to the ancient Cree teachings. With the help of healing methods drawn from the Four Sacred Directions, the refuge and revitalization offered by the sweat lodge, and native cultural practices such as the use of the pipe, Nabigon was able to find sobriety."--Jacket.

Series Statement

McGill-Queen's native and northern series ; 49

Uniform Title

McGill-Queen's native and northern series 49.

Subject

Genre/Form

Personal Narrative
Biographies

Processing Action (note)

committed to retain

Contents

The early years -- The middle years -- The long road home -- A meeting with the sweetgrass -- The natural cycle of life -- The four sacred directions -- The struggle for spiritual strength -- The sweatlodge -- The struggle for understanding -- The spiritual path.

ISBN

0773531327
9780773531321

OCLC

67860023
SCSB-12016952

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library