“David Walker’s Coyote’s Swing is a tour de force. It is an extraordinary work of heart, spirit, incisive intelligence, and unflinching truth telling. I highly recommend it.“

~ Steven Newcomb (Shawnee-Lenape), Pagans in the Promised Land

“… a compelling challenge to prevailing secular narratives… a work that serves to confirm why we need a radically new approach to mental health treatment, one that embraces the diverse cultures found in the world’s spiritual traditions – a message that is not limited to Indian Country but is an urgent call to action for us all.”

~ Samuel Bendeck Sotillos, Journal of Humanistic Psychology

“Walker demonstrates the ways in which the historical oppression of Native Americans still exists through the modern Western medical experience . . .[and] the ways in which modern case studies of mental illness are not all that different from past reactions to colonization…”

~ Jewel Parker, Pacific Northwest Quarterly