Richard Erdoes

About The Author

Richard Erdoes is the author of more than 21 books, including Lame Deer: Seeker of Visions, and American Indian Myths and Legends. An Austrian-born historian, ethnographer, and artist, he has contributed to many publications, including the New York Times, Time, Life, Fortune, Smithsonian, and the Saturday Evening Post. He lives in New Mexico.

Books by Richard Erdoes

Meditations with the Navajo

Prayers, Songs, and Stories of Healing and Harmony

By Gerald Hausman
Foreword by Richard Erdoes
A collection of stories, poems, and meditations that illuminate the spiritual world of the Navajo. • Explores the Navajo's fundamental belief in the importance of harmony and balance in the world. • Shares Navajo healing ways that have been handed down for generations.• Includes meditations follo...
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Gift of Power

The Life and Teachings of a Lakota Medicine Man

By Chief Archie Fire Lame Deer and Richard Erdoes
With surprising candor, Archie Fire Lame Deer describes the magic and power of the Native American spirit life. Archie's compelling narrative recaptures his boyhood years under the tutelage of his medicine-man grandfather on a South Dakota farm. We follow him from Catholic school runaway to Army ...
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