Touch the Earth, a Self-Portrait of Indian Existence by TC McLuhan This book aims to describe the experience of North American Indians as their way of life it was altered by the intrusion of the white man onto this continent. The writings are composed of passages taken from letters and orations of Indians mainly from the 18th century to the mid-20th century. This historical perspective of their experience with nature is not necessarily a well-known account as far as popular literature is concerned, but if it were to become more of a lesson in the general education of the population it could serve to broaden the understanding of the Indians' way of life. now and it was then. There has been very little documentation that has brought such insight into traditional culture. This book was chosen because it was written through an Indigenous cultural and spiritual perspective. It is written in anecdotal form. While there has been growing support over the past fifty-plus years to include other peoples introduced to this land, such as African Americans, Asian Americans, and much documentation supporting European Americans, relatively little has been integrated regarding Native Americans. Americans. While many of the above-mentioned groups of people have suffered oppression, cultural devastation, even destruction and slavery, and many areas where historically accurate representations of culture and spirituality still exist, this cannot be said as strongly as for the Indians. Even today there is a division between those who want to discover their past, their cultural origins and those who simply want to find the white man's American dream (Joe Bear, Catawba Tribe, 2001). The book was especially poignant for anyone studying Indian culture. It is easy for us to feel vicarious anger, misery on behalf of these people, but the Indians, living and dead, would receive such feelings only with pity or contempt; it is too easy to feel sympathy for a people whose culture has been destroyed. Pride would breed contempt for sympathy, a strong people does not want sympathy. Too bad, because the ancestors knew about the destruction, they watched, unable to stop the destruction of what was so bountiful. This scraping of the earth still continues while the land is still raw from past abuses. Instead of living in harmony with nature, all developed countries devastate what brought us wealth, but some leave a much larger footprint than others.