Ruth Beebe Hill (1913–2015)

I got this book when I was thirty years old. It took me about six weeks to read it. My memories of the experience are really quite dim. At the time I took it that the protagonist was the person through whom the Great Spirit came to the Sioux Indians. So the long and the short of this review is that I enjoyed the book even though the content was a puzzle.

Caveat lector: There was a lot of controversy about "Hanta Yo" and author Ruth Beebe Hill at the time. I don't remember what it was about or how it all played out, but the book was fun and interesting. If I was going to read it again, I'd lay in a brick of Panama Red and a bag of 'shrooms before starting through it. I'd camp in the woods while reading the book, and I'd read it by firelight. It was a long, strange trip the first time through, but that trip was a good one.… (altro)