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4:00 Hello, Radio Readers. I’m Jane Holwerda from Dodge City, Kansas, with the sad news that it is time to wrap up our  2021 Spring Read “Cultures in a Common Land.”  To think of the people, places, and ideas we’ve experienced by reading together since January through April is impressive.  I’ve been thumbing through the books and listening again to the Book Bytes on HPPR’s website, and I’ve recognized some personal growth, as I seem to experience, whenever I return home, after a good travel. I mean, think about it…through the books in this spring series, we’ve been to Afr...

Credit United States Department of the Interior, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons Hi, I am Phillip Periman from Amarillo, Texas and I am one of the discussants for the HPPR Reader’s book club. This spring we are reading “Neither Wolf nor Dog” by Kent Nerburn. This is a book I would never have bought except that it was chosen for this year’s read. Once I started reading it, I could not put it down. Nerburn provides a griping poignant look into the mind and heart of the American Indian. In doing this he shows us a rich and meaningful culture and tradition that we destroyed and lost ...

4:00 Dan says, “Make it sound like I went to Haskell,” referring to the all-Indian higher education institution in Lawrence, Kansas. Credit Gen. Quon, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons This is the High Plains Public Radio Reader’s Book Club, and my name is Freddy Gipp. I am born and raised in Lawrence, KS and currently head a small community development firm called Lead Horse LLC. I am an enrolled member of the Apache Tribe of Oklahoma, my Indian name is “T’san T’hoop A’hn, meaning “Lead Horse” in the Kiowa Language, and I graduated from the University of Kansas in 2016 with a degr...

.  This 1993 book still packs a punch, even after nearly three decades after its release.  It is actually the first in a series of three books dealing with Native American issues.  It is a classic road-trip story:  a light-hearted quest with an on-going philosophical debate discussing Native American history, inequalities, and Post-Colonialism traumas.  The three characters create an on-going dialogue between the Colonial (i.e., “white”) and Native perspectives, and the mediation between these two polarized perspectives, which attempts to resolve their differences.  As the story un...

Credit PC bro, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons This is the High Plains Public Radio Reader’s Book Club and my name is Freddy Gipp. I am born and raised in Lawrence, KS and currently head a small community development firm called Lead Horse LLC. I am an enrolled member of the Apache Tribe of Oklahoma, my Indian name is “T’san T’hoop A’hn, meaning “Lead Horse” in the Kiowa Language, and I graduated from the University of Kansas in 2016 with a degree in strategic communications from the William Allen White School of Journalism. In the book “Neither Wolf nor Dog”, author Ken...