"Note: the author is a citizen of the Choctaw Nation."

"Native America knows something about cultivating resilience and resisting darkness. Choctaw elder and Episcopal priest Steven Charleston offers words of hard-won hope, rooted in daily conversations with the Spirit and steeped in Indigenous wisdom. For all who yearn for hope, "Ladder to the Light" is a book of comfort, truth, and challenge in a time of anguish and fear. Night will not last forever. Together we can climb toward the light." -- back cover

Contents : Introduction: The vision of the kiva -- Chapter 1 : The rung of faith -- Chapter 2 : The rung of blessing -- Chapter 3 : The rung of hope -- Chapter 4 : The rung of community -- Chapter 5 : The rung of action -- Chapter 6 : The rung of truth -- Chapter 7 : The rung of renewal -- Chapter 8 : The rung of transformation -- Afterword : The emergence