Ed Little Crow Book Release

Greetings Relatives, Friends and Community,

Below you will find information about Ed Little Crow's book release. Thank you for taking the time to read it, to celebrate with our family the fruition of a project that has been nurtured and sculpted for some years now out of the well-worn, dusty stacks of Eddie's handwritten poetry. Our dear, longtime friend, Antoinette Claypoole, has generously gifted her editing skills and her independent press, Wild Embers, to bring some of Eddie's words, poems and teachings to print. It has been a labor of love for a Native elder who has taken decades of sorrow and struggle for Indian people and transformed them to words, with the hope and prayer they can help others, inspire others, teach others about a way of life that is from the past, bridging to the days before reservation life, before the attempts of genocide, when the People inhabited their homelands and were Human Beings.

I put this forth to our R.E.D. mailing list because Eddie has been an important elder in our community, a mentor, a spiritual adviser, and a keeper of the Old Ways. He often feels like a misfit in our society, and people don't know what to make of him. He is often severely misunderstood and therefore not allowed to share his knowledge. This book, as you will see below, is a window into his past. It is a small and humble representation of his life. It is a tribute. From our family, I'd like to share this with you. . .

Pilamaya,
Jaimie

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Wild Embers
Nov. 28, 2009
Ashland, Oregon
emberspress@gmail.com [1]
Wild Embers Press is proud to announce a new title:

Dreaming of a True World
A Opchine WaLa Ohkon
stories, poems, memories
by Ed Little Crow

book cover/photos: right "Ed with Mom and dog Tommy" S. Dakota circa 1952 photographer unknown
left "Little Crow taking care of business" "assimilation" First Nations Day, Ashland, Or. 2006

book design/non digital photos by antoinette nora claypoole

Dreaming of a True World A Opchine WaLa Ohkon
by Ed Little Crow
released Nov. 2009. Wild Embers Press
photos by antoinette nora claypoole
archived AIM images donated by Robert Robideau, Anishanabe/Ojibway (RIP Feb. 2009)
66 pages, $12

Poems, stories and memories by Ed Little Crow, Lakota/Dakota veteran of the Seige of Wounded Knee, 1973 member of the Elder's Council in Southern Oregon.

This is a collection of Little Crow's writings and thoughts about the world as we find it now, the world as he knew it when he was young. "Dreaming" is a quintessential journey into the borderlands of human survival. Included are his poems from the 1980's and 90's, previously unpublished stories about the American Indian Movement, and commentaries about "being Indian", all transcribed from Little Crow interviews conducted in Ashland, Or. 2006.

Book includes tribute to Dave Chief (1929-2005), Lakota, photos by antoinette nora claypoole and old AIM images donated by Robert Robideau (RIP Feb. 2009).

Sharon Doubiago, Oregon Literary Arts “poetry book of the year” award winner, praises Little Crow's new work:

“If I had a horse I would ride

To the thundering falls

To taste the brother hood floating free in this land of our seeed....

There are no elders anymore to make predictions or prophecies to teach people,

especially young people, children, how to live in this alienation….”

But Ed Little Crow is our elder and he is teaching us here in his words and thoughts collected by Wild Embers”

Support the message, honor the People

GET A COPY OF LITTLE CROW BOOK

order here

author available for poetry readings/lecture

contact Jaimie

jaimiesclan@q.com [2]

for more info about Crow book including

* request for "review" copies
* bookstore ordering
* college classroom/education discounts
* & tribal donations

contact
watersongs@gmail.com [3]

www.fetchingsky.blogspot.com [4]
"la Puerta, Taos: the art of fetching Sky"
new book about Taos, New Mexico artists and writers...yum
from WIld Embers Press

www.littlecrowpoems.blogspot [5]
and/or
www.crowbook.blogspot.com [6]

"To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else." --Emily Dickinson