👴 Ancestral Teachings

Wisdom handed down across generations — oral traditions, elder knowledge, and inherited ways of seeing — guides characters through modern challenges.

365 Days Of Walking The Red Road

by Terri Jean • 2003

A year with Native American spiritual teachings: balance, gratitude, and harmony, one day at a time.

4.33

363

🪶 Indigenous Spirituality 📖 Daily Meditations 🌄 Native American Wisdom 🌍 Earth Based Spirituality 🌱 Environmental Ethics

365 Days Of Walking The Red Road Summary

365 Days Of Walking The Red Road 89%

A year with Native American spiritual teachings: balance, gratitude, and harmony, one day at a time.

by Terri Jean 2003

4.33

363 ratings

🪶 Indigenous Spirituality 📖 Daily Meditations 🌄 Native American Wisdom 🌍 Earth Based Spirituality 🌱 Environmental Ethics

The Healing Wisdom of Africa

by Malidoma Patrice Somé • 1999

A West African elder's ritual and community practices for restoring the purpose you forgot.

4.48

474

🌿 Indigenous Wisdom 🌍 African Spirituality 🕯️ Ritual Healing 🤝 Community Healing 🧭 Life Purpose

The Healing Wisdom of Africa 89%

A West African elder's ritual and community practices for restoring the purpose you forgot.

by Malidoma Patrice Somé 1999

4.48

474 ratings

🌿 Indigenous Wisdom 🌍 African Spirituality 🕯️ Ritual Healing 🤝 Community Healing 🧭 Life Purpose

Indaba My Children

by Vusamazulu Credo Mutwa • 1964

Before Africa wrote, it remembered: the Bantu sacred history from creation to a future messiah.

4.41

450

🌍 African Mythology 🗣️ Bantu Oral Tradition 🌌 Creation Myths 🕯️ Ancestral Veneration 📜 Oral History

Indaba My Children 89%

Before Africa wrote, it remembered: the Bantu sacred history from creation to a future messiah.

by Vusamazulu Credo Mutwa 1964

4.41

450 ratings

🌍 African Mythology 🗣️ Bantu Oral Tradition 🌌 Creation Myths 🕯️ Ancestral Veneration 📜 Oral History

Ritual

by Malidoma Patrice Somé • 1993

When a community stops its rituals, the ancestors withdraw and the witches move in.

4.22

597

🌍 African Spirituality 🕯️ Ancestral Healing 😢 Grief Rituals 👥 Community Building 💫 Soul Retrieval

Ritual 89%

When a community stops its rituals, the ancestors withdraw and the witches move in.

by Malidoma Patrice Somé 1993

4.22

597 ratings

🌍 African Spirituality 🕯️ Ancestral Healing 😢 Grief Rituals 👥 Community Building 💫 Soul Retrieval

Of Water and the Spirit

by Malidoma Patrice Somé • 1994

A kidnapped West African returns home a stranger. To belong, he must survive a deadly initiation.

4.41

2k+

🌀 Shamanic Memoir 🌉 Bridge Between Cultures 🌳 Return To Ancestral Roots ⚔️ Clash Of Worldviews 🌑 Initiatory Ordeal

Of Water and the Spirit 89%

A kidnapped West African returns home a stranger. To belong, he must survive a deadly initiation.

by Malidoma Patrice Somé 1994

4.41

2k+ ratings

🌀 Shamanic Memoir 🌉 Bridge Between Cultures 🌳 Return To Ancestral Roots ⚔️ Clash Of Worldviews 🌑 Initiatory Ordeal

Ancestral Medicine

by Daniel Foor • 2017

A therapist's ritual guide to healing with your ancestors: repair the dead, reclaim your life.

4.42

343

🕯️ Ancestral Healing 🔥 Ritual Practice 🧬 Intergenerational Trauma 🙏 Ancestor Veneration 🗣️ Spirit Communication

Ancestral Medicine 89%

A therapist's ritual guide to healing with your ancestors: repair the dead, reclaim your life.

by Daniel Foor 2017

4.42

343 ratings

🕯️ Ancestral Healing 🔥 Ritual Practice 🧬 Intergenerational Trauma 🙏 Ancestor Veneration 🗣️ Spirit Communication

The Teachings of Don Juan

by Carlos Castaneda • 1968

Yaqui sorcerer's lessons: knowledge as warfare, peyote as guide, and seeing energy as ultimate aim.

3.93

46k+

🧭 Shamanic Apprenticeship 🍄 Entheogenic Traditions 🌀 Altered States 🦅 Toltec Wisdom ⚔️ Spiritual Warrior

The Teachings of Don Juan 88%

Yaqui sorcerer's lessons: knowledge as warfare, peyote as guide, and seeing energy as ultimate aim.

by Carlos Castaneda 1968

3.93

46k+ ratings

🧭 Shamanic Apprenticeship 🍄 Entheogenic Traditions 🌀 Altered States 🦅 Toltec Wisdom ⚔️ Spiritual Warrior

Wawata - Moon Dreaming

by Dr Dr Hinemoa Elder • 2022

Your emotions have a lunar rhythm. A Māori psychiatrist shows you how to read the map.

4.20

197

🪶 Indigenous Wisdom 🌙 Lunar Spirituality 📖 Daily Reflections 🔄 Cyclical Living 💃 Body Wisdom

Wawata - Moon Dreaming 88%

Your emotions have a lunar rhythm. A Māori psychiatrist shows you how to read the map.

by Dr Dr Hinemoa Elder 2022

4.20

197 ratings

🪶 Indigenous Wisdom 🌙 Lunar Spirituality 📖 Daily Reflections 🔄 Cyclical Living 💃 Body Wisdom

The Power of Silence

by Carlos Castaneda • 1987

Seeing the familiar world costs nearly all your energy. Save some and an unfamiliar one appears.

4.24

3k+

🔮 New Age Spirituality 🌀 Modern Shamanism 🧠 Altered Consciousness ⚔️ Spiritual Warrior 🌿 Indigenous Wisdom

The Power of Silence 88%

Seeing the familiar world costs nearly all your energy. Save some and an unfamiliar one appears.

by Carlos Castaneda 1987

4.24

3k+ ratings

🔮 New Age Spirituality 🌀 Modern Shamanism 🧠 Altered Consciousness ⚔️ Spiritual Warrior 🌿 Indigenous Wisdom

America Before

by Graham Hancock • 2019

Mainstream archaeology says the Americas were settled 13,000 years ago. The evidence says 100,000.

4.13

4k+

🏛️ Lost Civilizations 🔍 Alternative Archaeology 🗺️ Ancient Americas ☄️ Catastrophism ⭐ Ancient Astronomy

America Before 88%

Mainstream archaeology says the Americas were settled 13,000 years ago. The evidence says 100,000.

by Graham Hancock 2019

4.13

4k+ ratings

🏛️ Lost Civilizations 🔍 Alternative Archaeology 🗺️ Ancient Americas ☄️ Catastrophism ⭐ Ancient Astronomy

We Survived the Night

by Julian Brave NoiseCat • 2025

A newborn found in a residential school incinerator. His son's memoir of survival and return.

4.27

1k+

📖 Indigenous Memoir 🏫 Residential Schools 🧬 Intergenerational Trauma 🌎 Native Sovereignty 🗣️ Oral Storytelling

We Survived the Night 88%

A newborn found in a residential school incinerator. His son's memoir of survival and return.

by Julian Brave NoiseCat 2025

4.27

1k+ ratings

📖 Indigenous Memoir 🏫 Residential Schools 🧬 Intergenerational Trauma 🌎 Native Sovereignty 🗣️ Oral Storytelling

Red Paint

by Sasha taqwšəblu LaPointe • 2022

Medicine failed her. She drove to the Skagit River and let ancestral waters do the healing.

4.12

3k+

🪶 Indigenous Memoir 🧬 Intergenerational Trauma 🌿 Cultural Reclamation ✍🏽 Native Women Writers 🕯️ Ancestral Healing

Red Paint 88%

Medicine failed her. She drove to the Skagit River and let ancestral waters do the healing.

by Sasha taqwšəblu LaPointe 2022

4.12

3k+ ratings

🪶 Indigenous Memoir 🧬 Intergenerational Trauma 🌿 Cultural Reclamation ✍🏽 Native Women Writers 🕯️ Ancestral Healing

African Religions & Philosophy

by John S. Mbiti • 1990

The dead are still family. Time has no future. Religion is the air.

3.85

280

🧠 African Philosophy 📚 Comparative Religion ✝️ African Theology 👻 Ancestor Veneration 🌿 Indigenous Knowledge

African Religions & Philosophy 88%

The dead are still family. Time has no future. Religion is the air.

by John S. Mbiti 1990

3.85

280 ratings

🧠 African Philosophy 📚 Comparative Religion ✝️ African Theology 👻 Ancestor Veneration 🌿 Indigenous Knowledge

The Reason You Walk

by Wab Kinew • 2015

His father endured residential school. His final lesson: how to forgive, and how to die.

4.07

4k+

🧡 Indigenous Memoir 🏚️ Residential Schools 🪶 Anishinaabe Culture 🤝 Reconciliation ✊ Indigenous Activism

The Reason You Walk 88%

His father endured residential school. His final lesson: how to forgive, and how to die.

by Wab Kinew 2015

4.07

4k+ ratings

🧡 Indigenous Memoir 🏚️ Residential Schools 🪶 Anishinaabe Culture 🤝 Reconciliation ✊ Indigenous Activism

Living Resistance

by Kaitlin B. Curtice • 2023

Resistance is a daily practice of integration, starting in your body and extending to the land.

4.11

2k+

🪶 Indigenous Spirituality 🔓 Decolonial Practice 🦶 Embodied Resistance ✊ Spiritual Activism 💗 Radical Self-Acceptance

Living Resistance 88%

Resistance is a daily practice of integration, starting in your body and extending to the land.

by Kaitlin B. Curtice 2023

4.11

2k+ ratings

🪶 Indigenous Spirituality 🔓 Decolonial Practice 🦶 Embodied Resistance ✊ Spiritual Activism 💗 Radical Self-Acceptance

Radical Hope

by Jonathan Lear • 2006

A Crow chief's dream taught him to hope for an unimaginable future, and his nation survived.

3.88

964

🏹 Native American History 🎓 Virtue Ethics 🧭 Adaptive Leadership 🧠 Moral Psychology 🌱 Cultural Survival

Radical Hope 88%

A Crow chief's dream taught him to hope for an unimaginable future, and his nation survived.

by Jonathan Lear 2006

3.88

964 ratings

🏹 Native American History 🎓 Virtue Ethics 🧭 Adaptive Leadership 🧠 Moral Psychology 🌱 Cultural Survival

Scatterlings

by Martin Shaw • 2019

Myths were never metaphors. They are the earth's living speech, and they have not fallen silent.

4.63

106

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 English Folklore 🗣️ Oral Tradition 🌿 Animism 🔥 Mythopoetic 🌍 Deep Ecology

Scatterlings 88%

Myths were never metaphors. They are the earth's living speech, and they have not fallen silent.

by Martin Shaw 2019

4.63

106 ratings

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 English Folklore 🗣️ Oral Tradition 🌿 Animism 🔥 Mythopoetic 🌍 Deep Ecology

Sastun

by Rosita Arvigo • 1994

A Chicago transplant in Belize becomes the last apprentice of a 92-year-old Maya shaman.

4.38

678

🪴 Ethnobotany 💊 Traditional Medicine 🌿 Plant Medicine ✨ Spiritual Healing 🥁 Shamanic Practice

Sastun 88%

A Chicago transplant in Belize becomes the last apprentice of a 92-year-old Maya shaman.

by Rosita Arvigo 1994

4.38

678 ratings

🪴 Ethnobotany 💊 Traditional Medicine 🌿 Plant Medicine ✨ Spiritual Healing 🥁 Shamanic Practice

Moon of the Turning Leaves

by Waubgeshig Rice • 2023

Six Anishinaabe scouts journey through a dead America toward the homeland their people once lost.

4.22

11k+

🌱 Indigenous Futurism 👵 Generational Wisdom 🏕️ Ancestral Homeland 🛶 Rites Of Passage 🤲 Community Survival

Moon of the Turning Leaves 88%

Six Anishinaabe scouts journey through a dead America toward the homeland their people once lost.

by Waubgeshig Rice 2023

4.22

11k+ ratings

🌱 Indigenous Futurism 👵 Generational Wisdom 🏕️ Ancestral Homeland 🛶 Rites Of Passage 🤲 Community Survival

Split Tooth

by Tanya Tagaq • 2018

A young Inuk girl hides from violence and discovers the Arctic's spirits live in her blood.

3.88

14k+

🪶 Indigenous Magical Realism ❄️ Arctic Wilderness 🕯️ Ancestral Spirits 🩸 Visceral Horror 💔 Maternal Sacrifice

Split Tooth 88%

A young Inuk girl hides from violence and discovers the Arctic's spirits live in her blood.

by Tanya Tagaq 2018

3.88

14k+ ratings

🪶 Indigenous Magical Realism ❄️ Arctic Wilderness 🕯️ Ancestral Spirits 🩸 Visceral Horror 💔 Maternal Sacrifice

A Separate Reality

by Carlos Castaneda • 1971

A Yaqui sorcerer shows his apprentice the silence that makes the everyday world dissolve.

4.09

19k+

🦅 Shamanic Apprenticeship ✨ Mystical Experience 🍄 Altered States 🤫 Silencing The Mind 💀 Memento Mori

A Separate Reality 88%

A Yaqui sorcerer shows his apprentice the silence that makes the everyday world dissolve.

by Carlos Castaneda 1971

4.09

19k+ ratings

🦅 Shamanic Apprenticeship ✨ Mystical Experience 🍄 Altered States 🤫 Silencing The Mind 💀 Memento Mori

The eagle's gift

by Carlos Castenada • 1981

His teachers vanished, leaving an anthropologist to lead sorcerers hunted by the cosmic devourer.

4.09

4k+

🐍 Toltec Shamanism 🌙 Lucid Dreaming 🧑‍🏫 Apprentice To Master ⚔️ Warrior's Path 👁️ Perception Shift

The eagle's gift 88%

His teachers vanished, leaving an anthropologist to lead sorcerers hunted by the cosmic devourer.

by Carlos Castenada 1981

4.09

4k+ ratings

🐍 Toltec Shamanism 🌙 Lucid Dreaming 🧑‍🏫 Apprentice To Master ⚔️ Warrior's Path 👁️ Perception Shift

Where White Men Fear to Tread

by Russell Means • 1995

How a California street kid reclaimed his Lakota identity and led the occupation of Mount Rushmore.

4.14

1k+

🪶 Lakota Culture ✊ Indigenous Activism 🏫 Boarding School Legacy 🌱 Cultural Reclamation 📜 Treaty Rights

Where White Men Fear to Tread 87%

How a California street kid reclaimed his Lakota identity and led the occupation of Mount Rushmore.

by Russell Means 1995

4.14

1k+ ratings

🪶 Lakota Culture ✊ Indigenous Activism 🏫 Boarding School Legacy 🌱 Cultural Reclamation 📜 Treaty Rights

Two Old Women

by Velma Wallis • 1993

Abandoned in the Alaskan winter, two old women draw on forgotten skills to survive.

4.09

19k+

❄️ Arctic Survival 👵 Elderly Protagonists 🫂 Found Family 💚 Community Healing 🔗 Intergenerational Bonds

Two Old Women 87%

Abandoned in the Alaskan winter, two old women draw on forgotten skills to survive.

by Velma Wallis 1993

4.09

19k+ ratings

❄️ Arctic Survival 👵 Elderly Protagonists 🫂 Found Family 💚 Community Healing 🔗 Intergenerational Bonds

Spirit Hacking

by Shaman Durek • 2019

Why chaos is the call, not the crisis: shamanic practices for turning upheaval into awakening.

3.90

998

🧿 Shamanic Healing 🌌 New Age Spirituality 🔓 Societal Conditioning ⚡ Energy Consciousness 🕯️ Ancestral Connection

Spirit Hacking 87%

Why chaos is the call, not the crisis: shamanic practices for turning upheaval into awakening.

by Shaman Durek 2019

3.90

998 ratings

🧿 Shamanic Healing 🌌 New Age Spirituality 🔓 Societal Conditioning ⚡ Energy Consciousness 🕯️ Ancestral Connection

The Toltec Secret

by Sergio Magaña • 2014

Ancient Mexico's dream system: nine levels, mirror work, and breathwork that survived the conquest.

3.92

178

🌵 Toltec Wisdom 🌙 Lucid Dreaming 🌌 Dream Interpretation 🪶 Mesoamerican Wisdom 🌀 Shamanic Dreaming

The Toltec Secret 87%

Ancient Mexico's dream system: nine levels, mirror work, and breathwork that survived the conquest.

by Sergio Magaña 2014

3.92

178 ratings

🌵 Toltec Wisdom 🌙 Lucid Dreaming 🌌 Dream Interpretation 🪶 Mesoamerican Wisdom 🌀 Shamanic Dreaming

Rootwork

by Tayannah Lee McQuillar • 2003

The real Hoodoo: practical spells, mojo bags, and ancestor work for love, money, and daily success.

4.39

270

🪢 Folk Magic 🕯️ Hoodoo Practice 🪦 Ancestor Work 🌿 Herbal Magic 🌍 African Diasporic Traditions

Rootwork 87%

The real Hoodoo: practical spells, mojo bags, and ancestor work for love, money, and daily success.

by Tayannah Lee McQuillar 2003

4.39

270 ratings

🪢 Folk Magic 🕯️ Hoodoo Practice 🪦 Ancestor Work 🌿 Herbal Magic 🌍 African Diasporic Traditions

Sand Talk

by Tyson Yunkaporta • 2019

Linear time and reductionist logic got us into this mess. An Indigenous framework shows the way out.

4.35

5k+

🧠 Indigenous Knowledge 🇦🇺 Aboriginal Australia 🔄 Systems Thinking ✊ Colonialism Critique 🌱 Sustainable Living

Sand Talk 87%

Linear time and reductionist logic got us into this mess. An Indigenous framework shows the way out.

by Tyson Yunkaporta 2019

4.35

5k+ ratings

🧠 Indigenous Knowledge 🇦🇺 Aboriginal Australia 🔄 Systems Thinking ✊ Colonialism Critique 🌱 Sustainable Living

The Smell of Rain on Dust

by Martin Prechtel • 2015

Grief out loud is the highest praise. Our silence around it fuels addiction, revenge, and war.

4.26

897

🕯️ Grief Work 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Ancestral Healing 🤲 Collective Trauma 🌿 Nature As Healer 🏹 Indigenous Wisdom

The Smell of Rain on Dust 87%

Grief out loud is the highest praise. Our silence around it fuels addiction, revenge, and war.

by Martin Prechtel 2015

4.26

897 ratings

🕯️ Grief Work 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Ancestral Healing 🤲 Collective Trauma 🌿 Nature As Healer 🏹 Indigenous Wisdom

We Are Dancing for You

by Cutcha Risling Baldy • 2018

Colonialism targeted Indigenous women's power; reviving a puberty ceremony is the counteroffensive.

4.51

171

🌸 Indigenous Women's Power 🕯️ Ceremony And Ritual 🏛️ Settler Colonialism 📝 Ethnographic Critique 🩸 Menstruation Beliefs

We Are Dancing for You 87%

Colonialism targeted Indigenous women's power; reviving a puberty ceremony is the counteroffensive.

by Cutcha Risling Baldy 2018

4.51

171 ratings

🌸 Indigenous Women's Power 🕯️ Ceremony And Ritual 🏛️ Settler Colonialism 📝 Ethnographic Critique 🩸 Menstruation Beliefs

The Vedas and Upanishads for Children

by Roopa Pai • 2019

Ancient sages said you are the universe wearing a body. Their proof, made for kids.

4.42

400

📜 Hindu Scriptures 🕉️ Vedanta 🧒 Philosophy For Kids 📖 Sacred Texts For Kids 🏛️ Ancient Wisdom

The Vedas and Upanishads for Children Summary

The Vedas and Upanishads for Children 87%

Ancient sages said you are the universe wearing a body. Their proof, made for kids.

by Roopa Pai 2019

4.42

400 ratings

📜 Hindu Scriptures 🕉️ Vedanta 🧒 Philosophy For Kids 📖 Sacred Texts For Kids 🏛️ Ancient Wisdom

In Sorcery's Shadow

by Paul Stoller • 1989

Birds defecate on an anthropologist in Niger. A sorcerer sees a sign and demands an apprenticeship.

3.98

312

🏕️ Ethnographic Memoir 🌍 West African Religion ✨ Sorcery And Magic 🧑‍🎓 Apprenticeship 👻 Spirit Possession

In Sorcery's Shadow 87%

Birds defecate on an anthropologist in Niger. A sorcerer sees a sign and demands an apprenticeship.

by Paul Stoller 1989

3.98

312 ratings

🏕️ Ethnographic Memoir 🌍 West African Religion ✨ Sorcery And Magic 🧑‍🎓 Apprenticeship 👻 Spirit Possession

Crow Winter

by Karen McBride • 2019

A grieving daughter, a trickster crow, and a quarry that is the dead's only road home.

3.81

2k+

🪶 Indigenous Storytelling 🐦‍⬛ Trickster Guide 🖤 Grieving A Parent 🌿 Land As Character ⚖️ Colonial Land Rights

Crow Winter 87%

A grieving daughter, a trickster crow, and a quarry that is the dead's only road home.

by Karen McBride 2019

3.81

2k+ ratings

🪶 Indigenous Storytelling 🐦‍⬛ Trickster Guide 🖤 Grieving A Parent 🌿 Land As Character ⚖️ Colonial Land Rights

The World Until Yesterday

by Jared Diamond • 2012

What hunter-gatherers knew about raising children, avoiding danger, and ending feuds we forgot.

3.78

11k+

🏕️ Traditional Societies 👶 Child Rearing ⚠️ Risk Perception 🤝 Restorative Justice 🛡️ Traditional Warfare

The World Until Yesterday 87%

What hunter-gatherers knew about raising children, avoiding danger, and ending feuds we forgot.

by Jared Diamond 2012

3.78

11k+ ratings

🏕️ Traditional Societies 👶 Child Rearing ⚠️ Risk Perception 🤝 Restorative Justice 🛡️ Traditional Warfare

African American Herbalism

by Lucretia VanDyke • 2023

Black herbal tradition, erased from textbooks: rootwork, spiritual baths, kitchen remedies.

4.32

156

🪴 Herbal Medicine 🌿 Folk Healing 🖤 Black Folk Medicine 🏚️ Southern Folkways 🕯️ Ancestral Healing

African American Herbalism 87%

Black herbal tradition, erased from textbooks: rootwork, spiritual baths, kitchen remedies.

by Lucretia VanDyke 2023

4.32

156 ratings

🪴 Herbal Medicine 🌿 Folk Healing 🖤 Black Folk Medicine 🏚️ Southern Folkways 🕯️ Ancestral Healing

The Serviceberry

by Robin Wall Kimmerer • 2024

Nature's economy is a gift economy. An ecologist shows how it works, and why markets can't.

4.27

70k+

🧙🏽 Indigenous Wisdom 🎁 Gift Economies 🧠 Traditional Ecological Knowledge 📊 Ecological Economics 🤝 Commons Stewardship

The Serviceberry 87%

Nature's economy is a gift economy. An ecologist shows how it works, and why markets can't.

by Robin Wall Kimmerer 2024

4.27

70k+ ratings

🧙🏽 Indigenous Wisdom 🎁 Gift Economies 🧠 Traditional Ecological Knowledge 📊 Ecological Economics 🤝 Commons Stewardship

The Handbook of Yoruba Religious Concepts

by Baba Ifa Karade • 1994

Yoruba faith: one God, many Orishas, divination, and the code of balanced character.

4.24

511

🌍 Yoruba Religion 🕯️ Orisha Traditions 🔮 Divination Systems 👴 Ancestral Veneration 🌿 Spiritual Initiation

The Handbook of Yoruba Religious Concepts Summary

The Handbook of Yoruba Religious Concepts 87%

Yoruba faith: one God, many Orishas, divination, and the code of balanced character.

by Baba Ifa Karade 1994

4.24

511 ratings

🌍 Yoruba Religion 🕯️ Orisha Traditions 🔮 Divination Systems 👴 Ancestral Veneration 🌿 Spiritual Initiation

Bad Cree

by Jessica Johns • 2023

Bloody nightmares drag a woman home to Alberta, where a starving spirit feeds on family grief.

3.89

21k+

🪶 Indigenous Horror 🫎 Cree Mythology 💤 Dream Magic 👯‍♀️ Sisterhood 🩹 Generational Trauma

Bad Cree 87%

Bloody nightmares drag a woman home to Alberta, where a starving spirit feeds on family grief.

by Jessica Johns 2023

3.89

21k+ ratings

🪶 Indigenous Horror 🫎 Cree Mythology 💤 Dream Magic 👯‍♀️ Sisterhood 🩹 Generational Trauma

Medicine River

by Mary Annette Pember • 2025

A dress with 365 jingles: one Ojibwe woman dancing to heal her mother's boarding-school past.

3.91

2k+

🏫 Indian Boarding Schools 🧬 Intergenerational Trauma 🔍 Investigative Memoir 🔐 Family Secrets 🪶 Ojibwe Culture

Medicine River 87%

A dress with 365 jingles: one Ojibwe woman dancing to heal her mother's boarding-school past.

by Mary Annette Pember 2025

3.91

2k+ ratings

🏫 Indian Boarding Schools 🧬 Intergenerational Trauma 🔍 Investigative Memoir 🔐 Family Secrets 🪶 Ojibwe Culture

On the Toltec Path

by Ken Eagle Feather • 1995

Castaneda's path: enter dream worlds, steady perception, let mortality strip the trivial.

3.79

117

🪶 Shamanic Practices 👁️ Perception Training 🌙 Dreamwork ⚡ Energy Work 🎭 Ego Dissolution

On the Toltec Path 87%

Castaneda's path: enter dream worlds, steady perception, let mortality strip the trivial.

by Ken Eagle Feather 1995

3.79

117 ratings

🪶 Shamanic Practices 👁️ Perception Training 🌙 Dreamwork ⚡ Energy Work 🎭 Ego Dissolution

Raving Fans

by Ken Blanchard • 1992

A Yaqui sorcerer teaches his reluctant apprentice to dismantle reality as he knows it.

3.84

10k+

🌀 Shamanic Teachings 🌵 Mentor And Apprentice 💀 Death As Teacher ⚔️ Warrior Mindset 👁️ Altered Perception

Raving Fans 87%

A Yaqui sorcerer teaches his reluctant apprentice to dismantle reality as he knows it.

by Ken Blanchard 1992

3.84

10k+ ratings

🌀 Shamanic Teachings 🌵 Mentor And Apprentice 💀 Death As Teacher ⚔️ Warrior Mindset 👁️ Altered Perception

City of the Beasts

by Isabel Allende • 2004

A grieving teen and his grandmother hunt a mythic Amazon beast and uncover a deadly conspiracy.

3.74

47k+

🌿 Ecological Fantasy 🗺️ Mythic Quest 🐾 Animal Spirit Bond 👥 Found Family 🌌 Indigenous Spirituality

City of the Beasts 87%

A grieving teen and his grandmother hunt a mythic Amazon beast and uncover a deadly conspiracy.

by Isabel Allende 2004

3.74

47k+ ratings

🌿 Ecological Fantasy 🗺️ Mythic Quest 🐾 Animal Spirit Bond 👥 Found Family 🌌 Indigenous Spirituality

Tauhou

by Kōtuku Titihuia Nuttall • 2023

Two Indigenous women, an ocean apart, discover their ancestors have been meeting without them.

3.97

720

🪶 Indigenous Literature 📖 Postcolonial Fiction ✨ Experimental Form 💔 Intergenerational Trauma 🌿 Land Connection

Tauhou 87%

Two Indigenous women, an ocean apart, discover their ancestors have been meeting without them.

by Kōtuku Titihuia Nuttall 2023

3.97

720 ratings

🪶 Indigenous Literature 📖 Postcolonial Fiction ✨ Experimental Form 💔 Intergenerational Trauma 🌿 Land Connection

The Seven Types of Spirit Guide

by Yamile Yemoonyah • 2020

You already have a spirit team. The step-by-step protocol to meet and hear them.

4.12

295

👻 Spirit Guides 💬 Spirit Communication 🔮 Psychic Development 🕯️ Ceremonial Practice 🌀 Eclectic Spirituality

The Seven Types of Spirit Guide 87%

You already have a spirit team. The step-by-step protocol to meet and hear them.

by Yamile Yemoonyah 2020

4.12

295 ratings

👻 Spirit Guides 💬 Spirit Communication 🔮 Psychic Development 🕯️ Ceremonial Practice 🌀 Eclectic Spirituality

The Lion Tracker's Guide To Life

by Boyd Varty • 2014

Find purpose like a lion tracker: ignore the big picture, follow one footprint, trust the silence.

4.26

3k+

🧭 Purpose And Calling 🌿 Nature-Based Wisdom 👂 Inner Listening 🌊 Flow State 🫀 Body Intuition

The Lion Tracker's Guide To Life Summary

The Lion Tracker's Guide To Life 87%

Find purpose like a lion tracker: ignore the big picture, follow one footprint, trust the silence.

by Boyd Varty 2014

4.26

3k+ ratings

🧭 Purpose And Calling 🌿 Nature-Based Wisdom 👂 Inner Listening 🌊 Flow State 🫀 Body Intuition

Where Wolves Don't Die

by Anton Treuer • 2024

Accused of a fire he dreamed first, a Native teen escapes to his grandfather's trapline.

4.17

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