Reluctant Pilgrim

Roger Welsch is an adjunct professor of anthropology at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. He is a former essayist for CBS News Sunday Morning and the author of more than forty books, including Embracing Fry Bread: Confessions of a Wannabe, available from Bison Books.

• PrefaceAcknowledgments1. A Lesson from Stones2. Lessons from People Who Know3. A Lesson from Elders4. Early Lessons5. Definitions and Distinctions6. The Lesson of the Skulls7. Resistance to the Irresistible8. The Lesson of the Dolmen9. A Lesson from the Pipe10. The Lesson of the Feather11. The Dubious Eye of Coyote12. A Lesson from Poop13. The Pilgrim14. Establishing a Cosmic Buffer Zone15. A Lesson from Touching the Fire16. Lessons from the Zealot17. Lessons from Real Shock and Awe18. Lessons of Hubris19. Lessons from Mother Corn and Father Buffalo20. Lessons from the Nahurac21. Where Lessons Are Lost22. Lessons of Place23. Lessons from Lines24. Lessons from the Fourth Hill25. Lessons from Lessons26. Lessons from the Muse27. Lessons from the Power28. A Lesson from Prayer29. Still More Lessons from Lessons30. Lessons in BriefThe Lessons of Others: A Selected and Annotated Bibliography

"Roger Welsch let himself be engulfed by the world Native people know and was swallowed whole in the waters of its deep and ageless sea. The Reluctant Pilgrim tells the stories of some of the things that have happened as a result. And it shows that the Spirits chose wisely when they tagged Roger Welsch as their own."—Dawn Hill Adams, member of the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma and co-president, senior scientist, and founder of Tapestry Institute