TY - BOOK AU - Grathwohl,Marya TI - This wheel of rocks: an unexpected spiritual journey SN - 9781594487309 PY - 2023/// CY - New York PB - Riverhead Books KW - Grathwohl, Marya, KW - Nuns KW - United States KW - Biography KW - Christian biography KW - Northern Cheyenne Indian Reservation (Mont.) KW - Autobiographies KW - lcgft N1 - Inklings -- Summons -- Catholic rain -- Chasing the horizon -- Arriving in Pryor, Apsa'alooke homeland : Bahpu-ah : shooting arrows at rock -- The classroom -- "The sweat at big days" -- Crow adoption -- Opening the sacred bundle -- Time for change -- Moccasins in Chicago -- The tie that binds : a ceremony in crow country and a lecture in Chicago -- What the crow elder knows : lodge grass -- A woman leads the way : Leadership Conference Regional Meeting, Donaldson, Indiana -- Anniversary Sun Dance -- Sister Claire Acts -- Reinventing myself -- A new, true name -- Grandma Nellie and birds -- First do no harm : Prayer Lodge, northern Cheyenne homelands -- The earth literacy professor's bow to the universe : Genesis Farm, New Jersey -- Michaela Farm and the Sisters of Saint Francis : a heart-haunting relationship -- Discovering Jesus as nature mystic : one litany and two parables -- This Universe Speaks as Beauty -- Speak a word of hope : cosmology course in jails -- Ancestors and destiny : reflections on deep time in the Bighorn Mountains N2 - "In this memoir, Sister Marya Grathwohl recounts her spiritual journey, how she-a Catholic nun from Ohio-came to be embraced by the Crow and Northern Cheyenne, and how their traditions prompted in her an expanding devotion to the land, its resources, and its connections to faith and God"-- ER -