Robert Boissiere Po Pai Mo: The Search for White Buffalo Woman
Publisher Sunstone Press; First Edition (July 1, 2016)Language EnglishPaperback 96 pagesISBN-10 0865340242ISBN-13 978-0865340244From a Nazi prison camp to the rocky mesas of Hopi, Arizona, Robert boissiere takes the reader on a literary and spiritual vogage of the first magnitude. A Frenchman, dispossessed of his land in the Second World War, the author arrives in America homeless, and finds a permanent place among two different Indian tribes in the American Southwest. The Hopis accept him as one of them because -- in spirit -- he is one of them, even when he is breaking a rule he knows nothing about:Leslie, ' I began impatiently, as everyone silently dipped their fingers in the bowl of rabbit stew. A long silence followed. I imagined my relationship with my Hopi family ruined by the audacity of my mouth. A sacrilege, I though, speaking when I am not supposed to. Then, Leslie and his family burst into a loud unrestrained laugh.