God gave you a brain, you figure it out!" This was Bill Eagle Feather's response to many a question.He was the Sundance chief of the Rosebud Sioux. Howard Bad Hand never says it in his book, Native American Healing, but that rough response was always in the back of my mind reading this book. Through his own voice, and the voices of his wise elder relatives like Kills Enemy & Jimmy Dubray, these healers & medicine men imply a world miles away from the materialistic money-grubbing white man's world. It is left to the reader to figure out the truly deep meaning embedded in this beautifully readable book. Near the end of the book, his uncle Jim Dubray takes Bad Hand to the Sacred Tree during a Sundance. The absolute rock-bottom simplicity of Uncle Jim's wisdom, as he passes it on to Bad Hand, brought tears to my eyes. If you want to learn something about the Indian way, and begin to comprehend the chasm between it and the American "way of life", read this book. Review for "Native American Healing by Howard P Bad Hand"