The Tao of Raven
An Alaska Native Memoir
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Narrated by:
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Erin Tripp
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By:
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Ernestine Hayes
About this listen
In her first book, Blonde Indian, Ernestine Hayes powerfully recounted the story of returning to Juneau and to her Tlingit home after many years of wandering. The Tao of Raven takes up the next and, in some ways, less explored question: Once the exile returns, then what?
Using the story of Raven and the Box of Daylight (and relating it to Sun Tzu’s equally timeless Art of War) to deepen her narration and reflection, Hayes expresses an ongoing frustration and anger at the obstacles and prejudices still facing Alaska Natives in their own land, but also recounts her own story of attending and completing college in her 50s and becoming a professor and a writer. Hayes lyrically weaves together strands of memoir, contemplation, and fiction to articulate an Indigenous worldview in which all things are connected, in which intergenerational trauma creates many hardships but transformation is still possible. Now a grandmother and thinking very much of the generations who will come after her, Hayes speaks for herself but also has powerful things to say about the resilience and complications of her Native community.
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- ValGal
- 06-28-24
My ache for Alaska both salved and saddened
Do you love Alaska and her people? Do you wonder what it is to touch another life and see yourself through their eyes? The journey is bittersweet, but you won't regret it. Beautiful and sometimes hard, the words are a poetry of life. Thank you Earnestine - such a gift.
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- jo
- 04-20-25
for all of us Indigenous Alaskans
This book hit home for me. I was deeply moved because it is so relevant to my own family's story.
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