If this is Your Land, where are Your Stories?: Finding Common GroundDrawing upon the narratives of Africa, Australia, Europe and North America, this collection of essays explores the relationships between territories, peoples and the stories and songs that give meaning to our lives. |
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Page 27
She told me how Indians came by a bridge across the Bering Strait from Russia ;
and she took me to see the dinosaur bones up in the badlands by Drumheller . “
Were there Indians around then ? ” I asked . “ Indians have been here forever ...
She told me how Indians came by a bridge across the Bering Strait from Russia ;
and she took me to see the dinosaur bones up in the badlands by Drumheller . “
Were there Indians around then ? ” I asked . “ Indians have been here forever ...
Page 142
They had been invented by fiction writers and “ borrowed ” by those who told the
stories ; but after a while they believed them to be true , and believed them to be
theirs . Unfortunately for storytellers , we live in a world in which the truth has ...
They had been invented by fiction writers and “ borrowed ” by those who told the
stories ; but after a while they believed them to be true , and believed them to be
theirs . Unfortunately for storytellers , we live in a world in which the truth has ...
Page 220
They told it with all the ritual that it required , for as Mary Johnson reminded the
court , the stories and songs that represent their past are about belief , and
therefore need ceremony . So do all stories , the Gitksan realized . They also
realized ...
They told it with all the ritual that it required , for as Mary Johnson reminded the
court , the stories and songs that represent their past are about belief , and
therefore need ceremony . So do all stories , the Gitksan realized . They also
realized ...
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| Title | If this is Your Land, where are Your Stories?: Finding Common Ground |
| Author | J. Edward Chamberlin |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | Carcanet, 2006 |
| Original from | Indiana University |
| Digitized | 2 Jul 2009 |
| ISBN | 1857548493, 9781857548495 |
| Length | 271 pages |
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