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Live action adaptation of the story by Rudyard Kipling. Mowgli
(Jamie Williams), a young boy living in the jungles of India, is
having fun playing chase with a group of monkeys when he is spotted
by Harrison (Bill Campbell), a talent scout for a circus who sees
potential in the young boy and his vine-swinging skills. As
Harrison closes in on his potential new client, Mowgli's jungle
pals team up to save their human friend.
In the last months before leaving to join the Ancestors, Russell
Means felt the need to record in permanent written form many of the
beliefs and traditions that he was taught as a boy and as a young
leader of the American Indian Movement. Russell believed that this
knowledge was in danger of being lost forever. His teachers were
Traditional Indians, many of whom were born in the 19th century.
These Elders were born into a different time and world, when
traditional Lakotah freedoms and complete sovereignty were a
personal memory for many. Co-written by Bayard Johnson (author of
"Damned Right"), "Clouds" takes the reader on a journey into the
intriguing and little-understood belief system and world view
shared by many American Indians and other indigenous people around
the world. The American Indian way of living has almost nothing in
common with the patriarchal philosophies and religions of Europe
and Asia, and this book helps explain the violent clash of cultures
that continues to erupt between indigenous and industrial societies
whenever they come into contact anywhere in the world. Few Lakotah
of our time heard the true account of their people's beliefs
directly from Elders who were born free, whose earliest memories
pre-dated the fencing of the Plains and the imprisonment of the
Lakotah people and culture. Russell Means was one of these. As a
young leader of the American Indian Movement, which helped
resuscitate Indian nations throughout the hemisphere, Russell had
the privilege of learning traditional Lakotah ways and knowledge
from Elders who were steeped in these ancient teachings. It was
Russell's intent to pass on this timeless and timely wisdom to a
world starved for balance and truth. This book is a concise and
comprehensive encapsulation of the Traditional Lakotah world view.
The Elders who gave Russell these cultural insights and values were
never educated in the white man's systems. The words are those of
an Indian telling his own people's story, not those of an
anthropologist striving to understand an alien culture and belief
system. Much of this information is available nowhere else. The
knowledge is broken down into numerous categories, beginning with
the Ancestors and the Matrilineal system common to most indigenous
people around the world, and concluding with perspectives relating
to the future. The book also contains drawings done by Russell
Means, a renowned artist. European and Euro-derivative societies
have never clearly understood the fundamental ontological and
cosmological beliefs of the American Indians, nor those of other
Indigenous societies, and this lack of understanding has led to
centuries of misunderstanding, disrespect, genocide, and
oppression. The knowledge in this book can help correct this
tragedy. Industrial societies have an opportunity to become
familiar with an almost diametrically opposed belief system which
has never led mass populations into sociopathic practices like
genocide and destruction of their own environment.
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