This is the first bestiary ever issued from Native Americans showing the helping and healing roles animals have played in their spiritual history. These are not animal stories, nor mere tales to delight and provoke interest. They are the rites and rituals of a variety of tribes depicting a world unified by the belief that the animal spirit dwells within each of us. With the power given by animals humankind transcends the earthly realm and enters into a unique oneness with a thousand-andone things seen and not seen by the senses. This is the record of animal power as it is joined to human belief in the "God that is in everything." In the words of a hundred-and-one-yearold Santo Domingo man who first encountered this book on the lips of his grandson-"Tell the poet he hit the true vein -the old ways are still our ways, and they will never die.", Hausman's work is spare and suggesting, evoking mood through images in the natural world... his work is influenced both in style and tone by Native American songs...strong, clear, elemental poems..." -- PUBLISHER'S WEEKLY GERALD HAUSMAN'S earlier works on Native American subjects have earned him high praise both from reviewers and teachers. Meditations With The Navajo: Prayer Songs and Stories of Healing and Harmony is Gerald Hausman's latest contribution to the Meditations With series. LIESE JEAN SCOTT, illustrator of Meditations With Animals, is the widely acclaimed student of Amado Pena, and her totemic revelations of the animal spirit are drawn straight from the heart.