Keeping Heart on Pine Ridge: Family Ties, Warrior Culture, Commodity Foods, Rez Dogs and the Sacred

By: Victor Glover

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Synopsis: (back of book) Native American culture Keeping Heart on Pine Ridge Cruise down the back roads of the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in this bold anthology of real-life stories. Creative writer Vic Glover lays bare the challenges, history, bonds, and rich traditions that infuse the stark reality of life on the "rez." Glover introduces readers to his friends, family, and neighbors, inviting us into his private world with a trace of amusement and a poignant honesty that grabs you from the opening line and never lets go. "'Keeping Heart' is as true a book as good writing can produce. Vic Glover has the perfect tone-compassionate cynicism-for knowing Pine Ridge and for describing a wide slice of life from one corner of that well-known American Indian community. Glover nails reality just the way it is-funny as hell and sad as hell. I hope Glover keeps writing." Jose Barreiro, PhD, Senior Editorialist "Indian Country Today" "An unprecedented look into the lives of contemporary American Indian people on one of the poorest reservations in North America. Through birth and death, ceremony and survival, Vic Glover generously gifts his readers with the humor, sadness, courage, generosity, and sacrifice that is Indian Country in the 21st Century." Gary Rhine, Producer "Wiping The Tears Of Seven Generations"