Invisible Reality: Storytellers, Storytakers, and the Supernatural World of the Blackfeet Menominee Sometimes the losses of childhood

Sometimes the losses of childhood can be recovered only in the flight of the dragonfly

Dragonfly Dance is a collection of poems remarkable for their candor and sense of catharsis

a Lumbee herself

and the promise of a future

Whether appreciated as the poignant tale of a Lakota life

Invisible Reality: Storytellers, Storytakers, and the Supernatural World of the Blackfeet Menominee Sometimes the losses of childhoodRosalyn R. LaPier demonstrates that Blackfeet history is incomplete without an understanding of the Blackfeet people's relationship and mode of interaction with the "invisible reality" of the supernatural world. Religious beliefs provided the Blackfeet with continuity through privations and changing times. The stories they passed to new generations and outsiders reveal the fundamental philosophy of Blackfeet existence namely, the belief that they