Harvey Arden
Author/Editor of:
Wisdomkeepers
: Meetings with Native American Spiritual Elders
Dreamkeepers: A Spirit-Journey into Aboriginal Australia
Noble Red Man: Lakota Wisdomkeeper Mathew King
Travels in a Stone Canoe: The Return to the Wisdomkeepers
Prison Writings: My Life is My Sun Dance by Leonard Peltier
Have You Thought of Leonard Peltier Lately?
White Buffalo Teachings by Arvol Looking Horse
Voice of the Hawk Elder by Seneca Wisdomkeeper Edna Gordon
Over the past few years I’ve given readings/lectures on the Wisdomkeepers at The Library of Congress, Harvard, Columbia, CalTech, USC, the University of South Dakota (Vermillion), Briarcliffe College (Sioux City, IA), etc etc etc I've given readings from Leonard Peltier’s PRISON WRITINGS: MY LIFE IS MY SUN DANCE and Mathew King’s book NOBLE RED MAN to audiences in schools, churches, museums, private homes, coffee shops, public auditoriums and theaters in New York, Toronto, Los Angeles, Atlanta, Boston, New Orleans, Washington DC, Cape Cod, Western Massachusetts, New Hampshire etc.and scores of smaller towns. I've also given scores of readings at Borders and Barnes & Noble (and many, many other) bookstores across the country; I've been interviewed on NPR (national "Public Interest" show, twice), also on many many other radio stations. I was for 23 years a staff writer at National Geographic Magazine. My books have been translated into French, Spanish, German, Italian, Dutch, Korean, and Japanese.
Anyway, I'm willing to put my old body on the line anytime it's needed for the Cause, but I can often be of more of use here at my basement-study PC, since I plug into lots of places in the Indian and international indigenous worlds, though I'm a white guy myself. Lot's of people know me and, hopefully, trust me. You can check me out ad nauseum with a Google search on my name. (someone told me she found 22,000 entries on me with a few simple searches) I still spend lots of time working for and with Leonard Peltier. I visited Leonard half a dozen times at Leavenworth.. Also I have a few novels, plays, screenplays and other nonfiction books that I'm trying to give birth to lest they be, alas, stillborn. MY LIFE IS MY SUN DANCE—a dramatic presentation of Leonard’s book with the formidable Lakota actor Doug Foote—opened last month in Boulder, CO., to mesmerized audiences and rave reviews,
My latest book, with Seneca Wisdomkeeper Grandma Edna Gordon, is VOICE OF THE HAWK ELDER-- available now at www.haveyouthought.com .
Like Mat King used to say, "You're not too bad for a white guy, Harvey. You're lucky. Tunkashila has a job for you to do and you're going to do it!"
Regarding why I, a white guy, am so involved in the indigenous world, I subscribe to the philosophy expressed in this statement by Australian Aboriginal Elder Lilla Watson:
"If you've come here to help me, you're wasting your time.
But if you've come because your liberation is bound up with mine,then let us work together."
CENSORED: 'My Life is My Sundance' theater photos
UNREPENTANT: KEVIN ANNETT AND CANADA'S GENOCIDE (documentary)
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6637396204037343133&pr=goog-sl
Description: **WINNER: BEST INTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY - 2006 LOS
ANGELES INDEPENDENT FILM FESTIVAL.
WINNER: BEST DIRECTOR for an INTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY - 2006 NEW YORK INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL. excerpt..."This documentary reveals Canada's darkest secret - the deliberate extermination of indigenous (Native American) peoples and the theft of their land under the guise of religion. This never before told history as seen through the eyes of this former minister (Kevin Annett) who blew the whistle on his own church, after he learned of thousands of murders in its Indian Residential Schools..."
