Recovering the Sacred: The Power of Naming and Claiming gardening was adopted and transformed by

was adopted and transformed by Native students for their own purposes

Louise Erdrich—winner of the 2012 National Book Award and a writer of astonishing insight and skill—discovers the universal within the particular moment and gives full-bodied expression to that most common and yet most mysterious of all human tasks: the passing on of life

Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Barbarian Days

that they can only use their English names and that they can't speak to each other

Recovering the Sacred: The Power of Naming and Claiming gardening was adopted and transformed byThe indigenous imperative to honor nature is undermined by federal laws approving resource extraction through mining and drilling. Formal protections exist for Native American religious expression, but not for the places and natural resources integral to ceremonies. Under what conditions can traditional beliefs be best practiced? Recovering the Sacred features a wealth of native research and hundreds of interviews with indigenous scholars and