In 2017, Scottish artist and writer, Kirsten Norrie meets Ernie LaPointe, great-grandson of Sitting Bull, the political and spiritual leader of the Lakota. Eagle Song: A Spirit Road Trip is inspired by this reunion; a spirit road trip that traces cultural intersections between their ancestral heritages.
Relationships to land, language, and family are something Native American tribal societies and Scottish Highland clans have in common. While both communities were considered comparably ‘savage’, Norrie sifts through prejudice and coincidences to uncover a shared history of seeing stones and eagle feathers, ghost shirts and ghost plaids, clan and tribe visionaries and lunar cattle rustling.
Accompanied by guides from literature, ethnography and image-making, Eagle Song: A Spirit Road Trip is a unique tapestry of interwoven lineage. This is a story of the visionary practices of peoples seemingly miles apart. It’s a book about home too, and ideas of roots, as Norrie’s travels set her on a quest to thin places and the spaces we inhabit in between.
Eagle Song
Kirsten Norrie
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Discussion & Dining Bundle£250.001 PledgesTwo tickets to a talk and presentation by Kirsten with pictures from Kirsten’s travels followed by an appropriately themed three-course supper at a country pub in Oxfordshire, six postcards featuring photographs taken during Kirsten’s travels, two first edition hardbacks, signed by Kirsten, plus one ebook and the name of your choice printed in the subscribers’ list at the back of the book. LIMITED TO 5 (travel and accommodation not included).
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In 2017, Scottish artist and writer, Kirsten Norrie meets Ernie LaPointe, great-grandson of Sitting Bull, the political and spiritual leader of the Lakota. Eagle Song: A Spirit Road Trip is inspired by this reunion; a spirit road trip that traces cultural intersections between their ancestral heritages.
Relationships to land, language, and family are something Native American tribal societies and Scottish Highland clans have in common. While both communities were considered comparably ‘savage’, Norrie sifts through prejudice and coincidences to uncover a shared history of seeing stones and eagle feathers, ghost shirts and ghost plaids, clan and tribe visionaries and lunar cattle rustling.
Accompanied by guides from literature, ethnography and image-making, Eagle Song: A Spirit Road Trip is a unique tapestry of interwoven lineage. This is a story of the visionary practices of peoples seemingly miles apart. It’s a book about home too, and ideas of roots, as Norrie’s travels set her on a quest to thin places and the spaces we inhabit in between.
What do you offer a Lakota spiritual leader who is the great-grandson of Sitting Bull? A golden eagle feather. This feather is a precious plume kept between the pages of a book. On the day it was acquired from a conservationist on Skye, three golden eagle couples appeared in the sky overhead.
