An eloquent exploration of the philosophies and lives of thirteen women elders from ten Indian nations.

This is the first book in which spiritual leaders among Native American women portray in their own words their ancestral knowledge, philosophies, and traditions.  Steve Wall traveled across North America, visiting the Mohawk and the Hoh, the Chumash and the Seminole, the Tewa and the Ojibway, the Oneida and the Seneca, the Cowichan and the Northern Cheyenne.  He talked at length with the women elders and their families as well as the m embers of their nations.

Wisdom's Daughters is a journey into the core of the lives and daily transforming events of Native America, through the voices and images of these women spiritual leaders and clan mothers who have been entrusted with handing down from generation to generation the wisdom of their peoples.