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Going Native Tom Harmer
University of New Mexico Press: Albuquerque. 2001. 292 pp. Illus. US$24.95 cloth
GOING NATIVE is a courageous book. It could have gone so terribly wrong for first-time author Tom Harmer, yet this simple story of one man's sojourn among the Okanagan-Colville First Nations on the US-Canada border is, instead, an evocative bridge to a world view that few non-Aboriginals have had the privilege, or perhaps the time, to pursue. It is not surprising that Harmer concludes with an Afterword confessing that this tale is not fiction - as if there were any doubt - but actually his personal journey into the spiritual life of his Okanagan-Colville friends, with some literary embellishment to make it "a good story."
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