Harvey Arden

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Harvey Arden (born September 25, 1935 ) is an American documentary author who has written articles for National Geographic Magazine for many years .

Life

Arden was a writer for the National Geographic Society for 23 years . He also wrote books in which he reports on his encounters with extraordinary people in order to record their stories, their legacies and their insights or messages for posterity. He traveled with Steve Wall through North America for several years to interview the elders of some Indian tribes and to gather their knowledge. Together they edited several books.

Arden wrote mostly socially critical reports such as about Leonard Peltier , an Indian activist of the American Indian Movement and the time he has to spend in prison, which also includes drawings and paintings that were created within the prison. Arden campaigned for his release and, together with Peltier, wrote the book My Life is My Sun Dance . In particular, he wrote articles on topics that affected the indigenous peoples such as The Two Souls of Peru but also articles such as The living dead sea for the National Geographic Magazine . He also traveled to Australia to report on the Aborigines and their stories about the dreamtime in his book Dreamkeepers .

Works (selection)

  • Steve Wall, Harvey Arden: Guardians of the Earth. Encounters with Indians from North America . Ed .: Monika Thaler. Frederking and Thaler, Munich 1992, ISBN 3-89405-307-0 (English: Wisdomkeepers . Meetings with Native American Spiritual Elders . Translated by Ursula Wolf).
  • Harvey Arden: Dreamkeepers. A spirit-journey into aboriginal Australia . HarperCollins, New York 1995, ISBN 0-06-092580-9 .
  • Steve Wall, Harvey Arden: Daughters of Wisdom. Conversations with Indian women (=  Heyne non-fiction book . No. 539 ). Heyne, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-453-12317-4 (English: Wisdom's Daughters: Conversations With Women Elders of Native America . New York, NY 1993. Translated by Karin Petersen).
  • Steve Wall, Harvey Arden: Travels in a Stone Canoe. The Return to the Wisdomkeepers . Simon and Schuster, 1998, ISBN 978-0-684-80094-3 ( books.google.de - reading sample).
  • Leonard Peltier , Ramsey Clark , Harvey Arden: My life is my sun dance. Prison records . 1st edition. Two thousand and one; Book 2000, Frankfurt am Main / Affoltern a. A. 1999, ISBN 3-86150-324-7 (English: Prison writings. My life is my sun dance . New York 1999. Translated by Katrin Ehmke).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gretchen Healy: Have You Thought of Leonard Peltier Lately? A Living Memoir with Artifacts . In: Tribal College Journal of American Indian Higher Education . tape 19 , no. 3 , February 15, 2008 ( tribalcollegejournal.org ).
  2. ↑ Harvey Arden: Have you thought of Leonard Peltier lately? HYT Pub., Houston, TX 2004, ISBN 0-9754437-0-4 .
  3. ↑ Harvey Arden: Two Souls of Peru . In: National Geographic Magazine . tape 161 , no. 3 , March 1982, p. 284-321 .
  4. ^ Robert Clarke: Travel Writing from Black Australia: Utopia, Melancholia, and Aboriginality . Routledge, 2015, ISBN 978-1-317-91474-7 ( books.google.de ).
personal data
SURNAME Arden, Harvey
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American author
DATE OF BIRTH September 25, 1935