Joseph Standing Elk · The Native Way
Twenty teachings for the later years, spoken plain, plus three companion books free.
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Worth far more than $37 — not in dollars, grandchild, but in the quiet of a heart that has made its peace with the years.
What's inside
Each teaching is spoken plain: the trouble of it, the old way through, and an honest word from an elder who has walked it.
A taste of it
From the fire · Silence
The old people did not fear a quiet room the way we do. They taught that silence is not empty — it is where you finally hear the things the noise has been talking over. The book shows you how to sit in it without reaching for something to fill it, and what begins to come back when you do.
— From chapter 1, The Power of Silence
From the fire · Regret
There is a regret nearly every one of us carries into the later years — a thing said, or left unsaid, that we turn over in the dark. The old way is not to forget it, but to set it down. The book walks you, plainly, through how an elder makes his peace with the thing he cannot change.
— From chapter 4, The Weight of Regret
Illustrative passages of the teachings in the book. For reflection only; not ceremonial instruction, and not medical or financial advice.
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The Questions I Never Answered on Camera ($47), The Pages He Kept Back ($9) and The Signs They Left Us ($19)
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About the author
I am an old man now, grandchild, one of the last who sat as a boy at the fires of the old people. In those evenings they handed down what they had — not on paper, but in the plain way such things are always given: a teaching at a time, told and told again until it lived in you.
I began setting them down so they would not be lost with me. This book is all of it, set in order. Twenty teachings, spoken plain, so you can keep them close and turn to the one you need. No ceremony. No claiming to speak for anyone.
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No, grandchild, and I would never offer such a thing here. This is universal elder wisdom — teachings for the heart and the later years. It does not speak for any tribe or nation and contains no ceremonial or ritual instruction.
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