Kent
Nerburn

  
Kent Nerburn is an author, sculptor, and educator who has been deeply
involved in Native American issues and education.  He developed and
directed an award-winning oral history project on the Red Lake Ojibwe
reservation in Northern Minnesota.  In addition to being a program
evaluator for the Minnesota Humanities Commission and serving on their
selection board, he has served as a consultant in curriculum development for the American Indian Institute in Norman, Oklahoma, and has been a presenter before various groups, including the National Indian Education Association, and the President's blue ribbon panel on Indian Education.

Nerburn has served as project director for two books of oral history
To Walk the Red Road and We Choose to Remember. He has also
edited three highly acclaimed books on Native American subjects:  Native American Wisdom, The Wisdom of the Great Chiefs, and The Soul of An Indian.  Nerburn is also the author of Letters To My Son, a book of
essays written as a gift to his son; Neither Wolf Nor Dog: On Forgotten
Roads
won the Minnesota Book Award for 1995; Simple Truths: Clear and Gentle Guidance on the Big Issues of Life; A Haunting Reverence:
Meditations On a Northern Land
; and Small Graces: The Quiet Gifts of
Everyday Life
.

Kent Nerburn holds a Ph.D. in both Theology and Art, and lives with his
family in northern Minnesota.

Visit Kent's website at kentnerburn.com!

  

  

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Love has its own time, its own season, and its own reasons
from coming and going. You cannot bribe it or coerce it or
reason it into staying. You can only embrace it when it arrives
and give it away when it comes to you.

Kent Nerburn