Wonderful illustrations, words that speak to the heart and soul. This is a great book for all ages. My 20 month old son loves the pictures and the sing-song rhythmn of the words, my 82 year old father loves the spirit of the book. We have the paperback in our sons library, and the hardback on our family library for future generations... Walk in peace, ...

This book is the best children's story to read to your kids on a fresh, April morning. It is a poetic journey through the natural world just as Spring begins. The illustrations are breathtaking, bold, and seem to flow off the page into your hand as you turn from one awesome scene to the next. The words, few but powerful, bring the reader through a meditation on the earth's beauty as seen through the eyes of an Oneida woman.

I can't decide who enjoys this book more? Me or the kids. Beautifully written and illustrated. A must have for all nature lovers with children (or without).

I was truly touched by this book. I am mainly a reader of romance novels, but would recommend this to readers of all types and levels. I grew up in the fifties and sixties when a lot of talk was on cults, communes, and "Big Brother". Not being familiar with the Oneida Communities in particular, this book has sparked my interest. All through the book I realized that love was not a consideration, just how to have the perfect society. The author kept my attention from page to page. It was hard to put down and I'm anxiously awaiting a sequel.

All my life I've had Utopian dreams, and the Oneida communities have always fascinated me. If you've ever dreamed of Utopia, read this book. It brings the human dimension to those dreams. I loved every beautifully crafted word of it.

Told through journal entries representing four interrelated voices from different generations, Time's Fool is an intricately crafted novel about the ageless human conflict between flesh and spirit. Its hero, Galton Morrow is a middle-aged Progressive physician and venereal disease expert, who, in 1907, is dripping with noblesse oblige and intent on saving the less fortunate souls of Boston from the wages of their ignorance, hypocrisy, and vice. Galton has always viewed himself as a savior of humanity. Having worked his way up into the best of Boston society-and society wives-he has always prided himself on his unusual, but unquestionably illustrious origins: while to Boston society he may seem to have started out poor and undistinguished, he is in fact the product of a scientific breeding experiment ("stirpiculture") conducted at the Oneida Colony, an unusually successful utopian community played out in upstate New York during the latter half of the nineteenth century. Members of the Oneida Colony lived under a system of communism that advocated shared property, pleasurable work, and free and open sexual relations-as long as all sexual "couplings" were arranged and approved by community leaders. The Oneida residents also instituted a system of human eugenics in which people would be "bred like racehorses" to produce human beings superior in body, mind, and spirit. Galton's knowledge of his noble origins has always fueled his sense of mission, but all this changes when Galton is visited by an engaging and determined young woman who inspires Galton to peruse the diary left by his father. Galton's journey into his personal past raises the timeless issue of the relationship between individuals and their histories, asking whether, in the end, our origins make any difference to our present selves. Many of the struggles encountered along the way have uncanny resonance not only with recurrent conflicts between human biology and idealism and between the head and the heart, but also with some of today's most pressing medical issues-particularly the ethics of gene therapy and genetic testing and the prevention and treatment of AIDs.

About the Author. Terra Ziporyn is an award-winning medical writer, editor, and historian whose books include The Harvard Guide to Women's Health, Alternative Medicine For Dummies, and Nameless Diseases.

This book was easy to read. It includes a narrative by Shattuck, a talented writer and lawyer, relating his experience with the land claim. It also includes primary documents from the Supreme Court and other legal scenarios related to the claim. It is a necessary introduction to this very important case.

Compiled by Karin E. Michelson (Associate Professor of Linguistics, State University of New York at Buffalo) and Mercy A. Doxtator (former Oneida-language teacher at the Standing Stone School at Oneida-of-the-Thames, and Director of the Oneida Language Center, 1993-1997), Oneida-English English-Oneida Dictionary is an expansive, thorough, scholarly reference for the Iroquoian Native American language, which is currently at risk of extinction and spoken fluently by fewer than 250 people. The Oneida-English portion features approximately 6000 entries, offering lexical bases, particles, and grammatical morphemes to round out its solid information. A brief yet thorough and competent guide to the essential basics of the Oneida language, its grammar and pronunciation prefaces the extensive list of dictionary entries. Oneida-English English-Oneida Dictionary is an impressive, scholarly, and thoroughly professional reference, and a welcome presentation and preservation of a rich cultural and traditional Native American language.

Dr. Kern is one of the foremost intellectual historians in matters concerning alternative societies. I highly recommend this book. It is meticulously researched and highly informative. One should check out many of his historical/cultural articles for more of his work.

Being from Oneida myself, I have always had a special interest in this subject. I found that the most helpful elements in this book were the introduction and the notes following the diary entries of Tirzah. Without reviewing these notes before hand, it might be difficult to understand who many of the people are that the diaries refer to, as well as many of the locations mentioned. It seems almost unreal when reading this memoir that such a colony ever existed, it seems almost impossible that such people could live these lives, and that John Noyes had so much control over every aspect of these people's lives. I very much enjoyed this book and believe that it is highly worth reading, more so people from this particular area.

We can now read the memoir of a woman who lived in the famous Oneida community of the nineteenth century and did her best to live up to its principles. Tirzah Miller was born in 1843, and her unique memoir, published as _Desire and Duty at Oneida: Tirzah Miller's Intimate Memoir_, edited by Robert S. Fogarty (Indiana University Press), gives us a view of how some very strange sexual principles were practiced under Biblical inspiration. Miller's memoir was part of the Oneida archives, which were opened in 1993, and are fully printed here for the first time. There is useful editorial introduction and notes to prepare a reader for much of Miller's descriptions. Miller was the most important figure among the younger generation at Oneida, which had been founded by her uncle John N. Noyes, a prophet of "Perfectionism" which, among other things, entailed shared sexual relations in order to make jealousy impossible, and even planned breeding of humans to bring out the best traits in the young.

Tirzah Miller was involved in this sort of breeding, and writes about her participation. Her memoir tells about her doubts about Noyes, doubts which were always soothed by prayer so that she continued within the community. She was Noyes's favorite sexual partner, but had longings for others, and acted on them. Among the difficulties this caused was that there must not be any sort of "special love" analogous to marriage. Miller writes quite a bit about how she has to avoid this, and about her quarrels with Noyes, and about her liaisons with other community members.

Miller's memoir breaks off during the tumultuous end of the community. There had been raids on Oneida by ministers from the outside, shocked at its peculiar principles, but also Oneida was racked with internal dissention as members strove for more independence. Noyes declared that traditional Pauline marriage was now to be advised, and before the community broke up, Miller was able to abandon her worry that her love for the father of her third child was "too special;" she married him exclusively, and lived thereafter in apparent happiness. Her memoir is good reading to reveal a lively, thoughtful, and reverent woman, and throws welcome light on the innermost workings of a famous, failed social experiment.

This was a fascinating glimpse into the Oneida community and an amazing find.

Tirzah Miller is the niece (and lover) of community founder John Humphrey Noyes and has access to the real inner circle of community leadership. You follow her various lovers (the marriage had 200 members and they practiced a form of 'complex' marriage that left Tirzah with MANY suitors) and the trials and tribulations of her love life in intimate detail. There are curious omissions in the memoir (which Fogarty points out in his thorough introduction)-- she doesn't chronicle the birth of her first child George (the offspring of one of her other uncles, born without the sanction of marriage leader Noyes) nor the death of the father of George's father (George, Sr. dies before the baby is born). You are not sure whether this was an omission on Tirzah's part or an omission made by the descendents who released the memoir to the public (more likely it was the descedents given Tirzah's candid style). And there are several gaps in the journal where Tirzah was working on the community newsletter and stopped writing. These omissions frustrate the reader a little, but obviously there is nothing Fogarty can do about it, except speculate on the reasons behind the omissions in the introduction and provide missing background info which compensates somewhat.

The material that Tirzah did choose to write about is both poignant and sensational! Not only was her uncle an avid promoter of incestuous relationships (he felt the devil was behind social mores prohibiting this), but she chronicles several other outlandish suggestions John Humphrey Noyes makes for improving the community sex life (like, live sex acts performed during the religious meetings- a plan he never actually implemented). But the real heart of the journal comes from her painful experiences falling in love with and losing the love of her life due to strict community criticism of 'special love' relationships. It is heart-breaking to see her turn her back on a man she loves, teach their child to revile him and public renounce him all for the sake of her uncle's rather un-natural influence over her.

By the end of the book you feel as if you have been introduced to and become the intimate acquaintance of a remarkable historical figure. Tirzah's memoir is basically the story of a modern woman (she had a job, serial lovers, daycare, short hair and wore a unique trouser outfit) only, shockingly, she lived in the civil war era. A must read for feminist history enthusiasts!

Who Speaks For Wolf, a book written by Paula Underwood, Turtle Women Singing, is a story about an Indian tribe who faces the challenge of finding peace with nature. A Grandfather is singing an ancient story of their tribe to his grandson while wolves watch on from a nearby hill. This novel is a Native American poetry book, whose theme is to respect nature. As the Indian tribe moves onto the wolves home, they face the challenge to become one with nature, which the wisest of their tribe has already done. "And so it was that the people devised among themselves a way of asking each other questions whenever a decision was to be made on a new place or a new way." (Who Speaks For Wolf-pg 38) The Indians learnt how to respect the wolves and nature, but in the 1600's the white men came. After they came, the Indians became the wolves, and the white men the Indians, for they had not learnt to respect nature and other people. This book is written in an unusual style. Since the story is the grandfather singing to the son, there are capital letters beginning each paragraph and page, which resemble shouting. Since it is written in poetry, there are many indentions resembling the new verses. Who Speaks for Wolf is a picture book, which is aimed from kindergarten to collage and beyond. Many people enjoy this book for its lesson and understanding.

Who Speaks for Wolf, by Paula Underwood, is a small book with a big meaning. This Native American story teaches the relationship between nature and people. This book is a memorable and educational book with a profound impact. Who Speaks for Wolf is a Native American story, told by a grandfather to his grandson, teaching him about Wolf. This book tells of how the people forget Wolf, and push him off his land. The people become selfish and want the land for themselves. Later, white man come and repeats the same offense. They too don't think about the natives, and push and kill them off the land. The white men now show the same arrogance shown earlier by the natives. The important lesson of the story is to respect not only Wolf and other people, but also nature as a whole. The author does a splendid job of relaying the importance of living in harmony with nature. Who Speaks for Wolf, by Paula Underwood, teaches how important it is to respect nature. Through the Native American's story of a people thinking only of themselves and not of Wolf, we better understand of nature, and a better co-existence.

I am a college student who was required to read this book for my Mediation course. This is a short story with a tremendously important lesson. Written from the perspective of an old native american father, he tells the story of wolf. It follows the life of the native americans and of the relationship between man and animal (wolf). It goes on to show the blatant disregard of wolf when an important decision needed to be made among the native americans, and the fallout of that disregard. From a mediation perspective, it teaches the imporant lesson of diversity, learning to accept all parties involved and listening to and taking them into account. This is an incredible book for young and old...it comes with my highest reccomendation.

I bought this book on speculation alone. I'm an avid Civil War buff and had a few ancestors in the war. One of my ancestors ( Thomas Comstock) served in the 117th NY Infantry. It is for this reason that I bought the book. From the moment I bought the book I was made aware of the extremely trying times the country was experiencing. Simple farm folk were struggling greatly to keep life moving along despite the fact that the country is in great turmoil. A simple small town Farmer's son, Hermon Clarke, sees it as his duty to enlist and serve during his country's time of need. Despite coming from a Democratic household he finds himself turning away from the Democratic Copperhead, anti war, peace at all costs mentality and becoming something of an anomaly: a war Democrat. He enlists in the 117th N.Y. Infantry Regiment ( the 4th Oneida) when the call for more volunteers goes out. He makes a slow rise through the ranks ending up as a Lieutenant after facing numerous obsticles other than the battlefield foe. His Father's stubborn refusal to support the war effort and put aside his Copperhead mentality leaves him disturbed. His being placed under arrest for not obeying orders he never received, a shortage of supplies needed for daily life... All these things give a clear picture of what the typical soldier had to deal with on a daily basis. He writes but little of the battles and their terrible aftermath since most of his letters are to the folks back home inquiring about their well being and requesting certain items to be sent to him. This is not a history of the Civil War! This is a man's thoughts, hopes and ideals spelled out for anyone to indulge themselves in. It is a wonderful collection of the daily observances and needs of a simple man dedicated to a cause. I highly reccomend this book to anyone wanting to see the war from the sidelines and how men made due in trying times.

This wonderful book is a rich portrayal of the Oneida people. Young readers and adults will enjoy learning about Oneida Indian nation's history, culture and family life. Readers are well served by this book's co-authors. Gordon McLester guides readers through the life of his Oneida people and Elisabeth Torres shares her teaching skills with a story that is both interesting and chock full of lots of facts and details - even recipes. The Oneida is a delightful book.

Tales of Oniada Lake was a very interesting book. It told about the history that surrounded the lake. The book also mentions stroies of different past hunting and fishing seasons. I think that this book is a great reading book, not just because I live on the shores of this remarkable lake. But because it's so deatailed in telling of the people and towns in this area and how these people made a liveing off the lake and through thik and thin these people stayed and as a result of this Oniada Lake is a wonderfull place to live.