{"product_id":"the-tao-of-raven-an-alaska-native-memoir","title":"The Tao of Raven: An Alaska Native Memoir","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn her first book  Blonde Indian  Ernestine Hayes powerfully recounted the story of returning to Juneau and to her Tlingit home after many years of wandering. The Tao of Raven takes up the next and  in some ways  less explored question: once the exile returns  then what?  Using the story of Raven and the Box of Daylight (and relating it to Sun Tzus equally timeless Art of War) to deepen her narration and reflection  Hayes expresses an ongoing frustration and anger at the obstacles and prejudices still facing Alaska Natives in their own land  but also recounts her own story of attending and completing college in her fifties and becoming a professor and a writer. Hayes lyrically weaves together strands of memoir  contemplation  and fiction to articulate an Indigenous worldview in which all things are connected  in which intergenerational trauma creates many hardships but transformation is still possible. Now a grandmother and thinking very much of the generations who will come after her  Hayes speaks for herself but also has powerful things to say about the resilience and complications of her Native community.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44959863046197,"sku":"ByrdShop_0295999594","price":58.58,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780295999593.jpg?v=1770376841","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-tao-of-raven-an-alaska-native-memoir","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}