In a spiritual autobiography shaped by years of living with a
band of Salish Indian people after the Vietnam War, Tom Harmer
shares his hard-won knowledge of their world and the nature spirits
that govern it.
Leaving behind college, military service, and years of living
off the land as he drifted aimlessly and smuggled draft dodgers and
deserters into Canada, Harmer came to the isolated Okanogan region
of Washington state in the company of an Indian man hitchhiking
home after Wounded Knee. Harmer was desperate to make something of
his life. He settled down for nearly ten years close to his Indian
neighbors, adopted their view of the world, and participated in
their traditional sweatlodge and spirit contact practices.
From his first sight of Chopaka, a mountain sacred to the
Okanogan people, Harmer felt at home in this place. He formed close
relationships with members of the Okanogan band living on
allotments amidst white ranches and orchards, finding work as they
did, feeding cattle, irrigating alfalfa, picking apples, and
eventually becoming an outreach worker for a rural social services
agency. Gradually absorbing the language, traditions, and practical
spirit lore as one of the family, he was guided by an elderly uncle
through arduous purification rites and fasts to the realization
that his life had been influenced and enhanced by a shumix, or
spirit partner, acquired in childhood.
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