Run to My River
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| Rating | : | 4.39 (685 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1419651994 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 192 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-11-01 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
“Run to My River” and its ancestral book “Powhantuwa’s River” are precursors to the final story in Section Two of this book, which is “The Haunting of Shannon Fitzpatrick.”. Yvonne Dorsey's "Run to My River" is a heartwarming and passionate story about two women, a First Native American who commits an unthinkable act centuries ago, which causes unrest in her spirit; and an American millennial woman, Shannon Fitzpatrick, who helps Shaahatuck find her way to the Father Spirit; and, in
In 2014,she re-wrote it and placed it as a following story behind a fictional ancestral book, “Powhantuwa’s River”, thus reversing the order of presentation. . A fascination for the colonial era grew into an appreciation for her ancestry. A fascination and admiration for the Ancient First Native Americans was established in Yvonne in grade school, when she learned to make a teepee, then again when she lived in Arizona for a year and with her young family, swam in a river on a First Native American Reservation. Dorsey, mother of three grown children, and three grown grandchildren, resides in Historic Clinton, New Jersey, a town with a river running along Main Street, which provides photographers with a picturesque subject, and fishermen with a bucket of trout. Prior to the Riverbooks; in 1978, Yvonne published a poetry book, “Zany Thi
awesome Run to My River has its own artistic style with which I was completely drawn in. I feel blessed to have read this book.
Discovering that she was also related to President Abraham Lincoln through her Boone Ancestry, was exciting as well as emotionally fulfilling, because it was a reminder of his dedication to his (Abe's) and her, belief that “All Men (including Women) are created equal.” More than thirty years ago, Yvonne experienced a haunting and drafted a story about it, which eventually became the first draft for one of the Riverbooks; “Run to My River.” It was not completed until