but books like this just bring it all ALIVE for me!
Based on a true story, Jane Kirkpatrick takes us on Natalie Curtis' journey
to find herself after she lost her desire for music...
We are right there with her as we tag along on her adventures in The West...
and champion her on as she becomes a spokesperson for Indian rights -
in the early 1900s!
I am so glad there are people like her in our world
Wikipedia states: Starting in 1903 she worked from the Hopi reservation in Arizona and produced transcriptions using both an Edison cylinder recorder and pencil and paper. At the time, such work with native music and language was in conflict with the policies of the federal Bureau of Indian Affairs, which discouraged natives on reservations from speaking their language, singing their music, dressing in native garb, etc. It was only after the personal intervention of her friend President Theodore Roosevelt that she could continue her work unhindered. Roosevelt himself visited the Hopi reservation in 1913 for the Hopi flute and snake ceremonies, which visit was detailed by Curtis in "Theodore Roosevelt in Hopi Land," an article Curtis wrote for Outlook magazine in 1919.[3]
WOW!!
There are so many great quotes in this book...
and I especially love this one because I believe
we all need to step into the grace pause at some time in our life...
and bring the past with us [ & reconcile it...] as we move on to the future...
And this one is also so very true...
our broken pieces, mixed with the new,
makes us strong and beautiful...
Note: I received a copy of this book from the publisher for review -
ALL opinions are my own.
Photos of quotes are from the author's facebook page -
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