Beginning with the time and place this Native American author was born (1940), this story chronicles his journey that begins in his village of Guishsche on the Pueblo of Laguna Indian Reservation in New Mexico. He spent his early childhood herding sheep for his father. Like most Indian children of his generation, he spent six years in an Indian boarding school away from his reservation. From there he attends college and graduate school and becomes a professional social worker. The author uses his journey to tell about the tremendous impact his family and the people of his village had on him....