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The Tao of Raven

An Alaska Native Memoir

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The Tao of Raven

By: Ernestine Hayes
Narrated by: Erin Tripp
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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.

©2017 Ernestine Hayes (P)2024 Audible, Inc. Americas Cultural & Regional Indigenous Peoples State & Local United States Women Alaska
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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.

My ache for Alaska both salved and saddened

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This book hit home for me. I was deeply moved because it is so relevant to my own family's story.

for all of us Indigenous Alaskans

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