To You We Shall Return
“Grandmother, you who listen and hear all, you from whom all good things come…It is your embrace we feel when we return to you.”
This traditional Lakota prayer to Grandmother Earth opens Joseph Marshall III’s newest work, a meditation on our connection to the land and an exhortation to respect it. Using a combination of personal anecdote, detailed history, and Lakota tales, Marshall takes us back t...
“Grandmother, you who listen and hear all, you from whom all good things come…It is your embrace we feel when we return to you.”
This traditional Lakota prayer to Grandmother Earth opens Joseph Marshall III’s newest work, a meditation on our connection to the land and an exhortation to respect it. Using a combination of personal anecdote, detailed history, and Lakota tales, Marshall takes us back t...
