A review by rissasreading
Lame Deer, Seeker of Visions by Richard Erdoes

5.0

This book has made me feel so many things. From him talking about residential schools, to growing up in an indigenous family, and the important symbolism and ties to nature in the culture, he opens you up to his life and what it means to be Indigenous from his perspective. What makes me upset reading this is that he's recounting his life from the early 1900s & this book was written during 1971 and next to nothing has changed. Environmental discrimination still happens, Indigenous people are still being mistreated by the government and police, and land is still being destroyed and taken from indigenous people. Lame Deer's story is one that needs to be heard and told for generations.