THUNDER'S GRACE :
WALKING THE ROAD OF VISIONS WITH MY LAKOTA GRANDMOTHER
Thunder's
Grace is the tale of a remarkable elder, Grandma Grace Spotted Eagle, who
adopted the author and guided her in a spiritual awakening and, over the years,
helped refine her spiritual life and gifts. At once harrowing and uplifting,
this memoir tells of Thunder's early life. Her abandonment by her mother when
she was three weeks old, her survival of alcohol abuse, a dysfunctional family
and a broken marriage. It takes us through her experiences with Grandma Grace
and other legendary elders such a Wallace Black Elk, Rolling Thunder and Chief
Leonard Crow Dog, to the experiences of death during a heart attack that utterly
transformed her, and the remarkable years she spent traveling America by van. It
culminates in her inclusion in the Sun Dance, one of the worlds oldest and most
venerable of sacred initiations. Intimate, painfully honest, and spiritual in
essence, this is a book about a woman's quest for meaning amid two cultures and
a compelling account of the visionary side of life. It was written at the
request of Grandma Spotted Eagle.