If this is Your Land, where are Your Stories?: Finding Common GroundStories come in many forms, from nursery rhymes and national anthems to poems and praise songs, and from the stories of science to the rituals of religion.They tell us where we come from, and where we belong; how to live and sometimes how to die.They hold us together, and they keep us apart.And all of them bring reality and the imagination together in what J. Edward Chamberlin calls a ceremony of belief. Drawing on his experiences in Africa, Australia, Europe and North America, Chamberlin takes the reader on an absorbing journey through communities and cultures around the world. |
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... claim to recover their homeland . They were encouraged in their claim by the new African National Congress government , which had been elected in 1994 and was committed to the redistribution of land following the collapse of apartheid ...
... claim to recover their homeland . They were encouraged in their claim by the new African National Congress government , which had been elected in 1994 and was committed to the redistribution of land following the collapse of apartheid ...
Page 109
... claim , an action that should put to shame countries like Canada and the United States , where land claims have often languished in the courts and Congress for generations while Indians languished on reserves . A good part of the ...
... claim , an action that should put to shame countries like Canada and the United States , where land claims have often languished in the courts and Congress for generations while Indians languished on reserves . A good part of the ...
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... claims to the ter- ritory arise from the claims that the valley has on them , and the story of the grizzly and the slide confirms both claims . Several years ago , when the Gitksan decided to assert their claims in the courts of the ...
... claims to the ter- ritory arise from the claims that the valley has on them , and the story of the grizzly and the slide confirms both claims . Several years ago , when the Gitksan decided to assert their claims in the courts of the ...
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