Press for Trailing Sky Six Feathers:
by: Don Butler at The Ottawa Citizen
Ian Prattis has had a remarkable life. Or rather, remarkable lives. He can recall several.
Prattis, a 71-year-old retired professor of anthropology and religion, writes about two of those lives in a new book, Trailing Sky Six Feathers, described on the jacket blurb as "Indiana Jones meets the Buddha with a dash of Celestine Prophecy."
In this life, Prattis, who calls himself a Spiritual Warrior for Planetary Care, Peace and Social Justice, taught at Carleton University for 37 years, was the first Westerner to be ordained in India as a guru, leads weekly Buddhist meditation classes in the basement of his west-end Ottawa bungalow, and founded Friends for Peace Canada at the outbreak of the Iraq war.
Oh, yes - he also lived in a hermitage in Gatineau Park with his pet wolf for four years.
In the other life, he was the chief of an Indian band in 18th-century Arizona, fending off Apache attacks, married to Trailing Sky Six Feathers, a powerful medicine woman in whose arms he died in 1777. As his life ebbed away, she vowed: "I will find you, my husband, I will find you."…
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