"This compelling work provides a glimpse of the powers of the world and their interpenetration with dream reality, leading us into an understanding of relationships of spirituality with nature and community. It shows us a world in which family bonds run deeper than blood. It is a personal quest for integration that opens us to a perception of the powers of nature that lay hidden by the illusions of our rational mind. Powerful enough to bring out a longing for one's own spiritual awakening and development."—Michael Winkelman, Arizona State University, author of Shamanism: The Neural Ecology of Consciousness and Healing
"The zone between Indian people and non-Indians is populated with many honest people and a stunning array of phonies from both sides. Tom Harmer's Going Native is an honest book about a real white guy amid real Indians. Accounts of reality in that zone are rare. And guys like Harmer who can really write are rare. What more do you need?"—Jake Page, author of Hopi
"(A) simple story of one man's sojourn among the Okanagan.... An evocative bridge to a world view that few have had the privilege...to pursue....The personal chronicle of (Harmer's) self-discovery under the tutelage of Old Willie, Grandma, Clayton, and a handful of other Indians...is remarkably sensitive and vivid....(Harmer) effectively leads the reader into grasping, or at least glimpsing, the Okanagan-Colville world view and its interrelationship with nature....Going Native is a defence, both passionate and reasoned, of the importance of...finding power in nature."—Dorothy Kennedy, BC Indian Language Project
"This is a great book, for Tom Harmer really is one who knows, as shamans say. I strongly recommend it to those interested in shamanism or Native American spirituality."—Michael Harner, Ph.D., author of The Way of the Shaman
"(A) simple story of one man's sojourn among the Okanagan.... An evocative bridge to a world view that few have had the privilege...to pursue....The personal chronicle of (Harmer's) self-discovery under the tutelage of Old Willie, Grandma, Clayton, and a handful of other Indians...is remarkably sensitive and vivid....(Harmer) effectively leads the reader into grasping, or at least glimpsing, the Okanagan-Colville world view and its interrelationship with nature....Going Native is a defence, both passionate and reasoned, of the importance of...finding power in nature."—Dorothy Kennedy, BC Indian Language Project
