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Descrição do livro
Not just another addiction recovery story with a neat spiritual bow, but the account of a boy introduced to the world of spirit as a toddler—named Rider of the Black Horse in ceremony, told he would carry the spirits of his ancestors—and of the long, uneven journey of learning to recognize the unseen world that had been around him all along. From early encounters with knocks at the door and presences no one else could see, through years of numbness, rebellion, and loss, this memoir follows a life spent between cultures and between realms, where the ordinary and the spiritual are never very far apart.
When Oliver “Sikimiokitopi” Troy was six weeks old, a Blackfoot Beaver man held him up to the four directions and named him Rider of the Black Horse, saying his untarnished soul would represent the spirits of those who came before him. Decades later, after alcohol, drugs, grief, and a long forgetting of himself, that name was still waiting.
In this raw, unflinching memoir, Troy traces a life lived in the in‑between: a white kid with Irish, Norwegian, and English roots growing up on the edge of a Blackfoot reserve; the son of a wildlife artist who moved reverently around sacred bundles; a restless man drawn to music and art while riding the red horse of rebellion through pubs, late nights, and addiction. Knocks at the door with no footprints in the snow, green eyes staring from the living room, precognitive phone calls from old friends—his story is threaded with the spiritual and the paranormal, told in a grounded, unpretentious voice that refuses both melodrama and easy answers.
From childhood bloody noses and a backyard tipi to the unbearable loss of loved ones, from mopping university floors to late‑night revelations in recovery rooms and ceremonies, Troy confronts the ways egoic pain and addiction shrink a life—and how respect, humility, and simple willingness can begin to open it again. This is not a tale of sainthood, but of human beings doing their best to walk carefully around what they cannot afford to break.
Black Rider (Sikimiokitopi) is the account of a man who spent decades trying to outrun his own naming, only to discover that the Black Rider had been waiting, patiently, inside him all along. It is an invitation to anyone who has almost accepted “a very little life” to remember who they were before the hurt, and to wake, in their own way, from a long slumber.
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