Book excerpt: Edna Gordon provides life lessons as a Hen Hawk Elder from the Cattaraugus Reservation of the Seneca people. She shares her valuable teaching lessons and poetry on Mother Earth and our need to find balance in our lives and within our environments. In "Voice of the Hawk Elder," with the assistance of former National Georgraphic writer and editor, Harvey Arden, her words come to shape a picture of a world we need to find, from a woman whose voice we need to hear!