
Broken
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At a dusty corral on the Wind River Indian Reservation, she met Stanford Addison, a Northern Arapaho who seemed to transform everything around him. He gentled horses rather than breaking them by force. It was said that he could heal people of everything from cancer to bipolar disorder. He did all this from a wheelchair; he had been a quadriplegic for more than twenty years.
Intrigued, Lisa sat at Stanford's kitchen table and watched. She saw neighbors from the reservation and visitors from as far away as Holland bump up the dirt road to his battered modular home, seeking guidance and healing for what had broken in their lives. She followed him into the sweat lodge -- a framework of willow limbs covered with quilts -- where he used prayer and heat to shrink tumors and soothe agitated souls. Standing on his sun-blasted porch, pit bulls padding past her, she felt the vibration from thundering bands of Arabian horses that Stanford's young nephews brought to the ring to train.
And she listened to his story. Stanford spent his teenage years busting broncs, seducing girls, and dealing drugs. At twenty, he left the house for another night of partying. By morning, a violent accident had robbed him of his physical prowess and left in its place unwelcome spiritual powers -- an exchange so shocking that Stanford spent several years trying to kill himself. But eventually he surrendered to his new life and mysterious gifts.
Over the years Lisa was a frequent visitor to Stanford's place, the reservation and its people worked on her, exposing and healing the places where she, too, was broken.
Broken entwines her story with Stanford's, exploring powerful spirits, material poverty, spiritual wealth, friendship, violence, confusion, death, and above all else,"a love that comes before and after and above and below romantic love."
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- COVER
- COLOPHON
- TITLE PAGE
- COPYRIGHT
- DEDICATION
- CONTENTS
- PREFACE
- PART 1
- CHAPTER 1 WYOMING
- CHAPTER 2 A TRIBE WOULD BE BETTER
- CHAPTER 3 STELLA ANTELOPE
- CHAPTER 4 STANFORD MEETS THE SPIRITS
- CHAPTER 5 MY HOME
- CHAPTER 6 THE SOUL DRAGS THE REST BEHIND
- CHAPTER 7 NOT IN IOWA ANYMORE
- CHAPTER 8 LITTLE WHIRLWIND
- CHAPTER 9 A TERRIBLE PHONE CONVERSATION
- CHAPTER 10 LITTLE WHIRLWIND GETS TO WORK
- CHAPTER 11 STANFORD'S EDUCATION
- CHAPTER 12 BEAUTY AND RUIN
- CHAPTER 13 MY MOTHER HELPS ME MOVE TO THE RESERVATION
- CHAPTER 14 FITTING IN
- CHAPTER 15 THE WINTER DAYS
- CHAPTER 16 GOT WARRIORS?
- CHAPTER 17 MOVIES
- CHAPTER 18 THE WOMAN OF THE HOUSE
- CHAPTER 19 A HUGE CRUSH
- PART 2
- CHAPTER 20 STANFORD LOSES HIS HEALTH, MOSES LOSES HIS HOME, I LOSE MY DIGNITY
- CHAPTER 21 DUMB BAD LUCK
- CHAPTER 22 KEEPING THE MEDICINE CLEAN
- CHAPTER 23 WHAT IT'S LIKE TO BE AN INDIAN
- CHAPTER 24 THE MONK DISROBES
- CHAPTER 25 LIFE MOVES AS IT IS TOUCHED
- CHAPTER 26 ONE EMBARRASSMENT AFTER ANOTHER
- CHAPTER 27 JEVON
- CHAPTER 28 LANDER
- CHAPTER 29 HE GETS TO DECIDE
- CHAPTER 30 BEING USEFUL
- CHAPTER 31 MAN NURSES WOMAN, COWBOY NURSES INDIAN
- CHAPTER 32 SWEATING IT OUT
- CHAPTER 33 THE ORIGINAL POSITION
- CHAPTER 34 BEAU AT THE CORRAL
- CHAPTER 35 THE FAMILY MAN
- CHAPTER 36 VISITING THE GRAVEYARD
- CHAPTER 37 THE TRUTH HURTS
- CHAPTER 38 DEMON DOGS
- CHAPTER 39 ANIMAL MEDICINE
- CHAPTER 40 HOW MUCH CAN BE SUBTRACTED?
- CHAPTER 41 THE HEALING CENTER
- CHAPTER 42 DANIEL AND THE TURTLES
- CHAPTER 43 SHE TALKS TO ANGELS
- CHAPTER 44 WEDDING
- CHAPTER 45 THE SUPPLICANTS
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
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