If this is Your Land, where are Your Stories?: Reimagining Home and Sacred SpaceStories give shape and meaning to people's sense of themselves as individuals, their cultures, their nations, and what is called "home." The stories we tell, whatever our ethnicity, race, or religion, both connect and separate us. If This Is Your Land, Where Are Your Stories? considers the hold that our stories--especially those about home--have on us and how we interact with others. |
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... asked George Watts , the chief of the Nuu - chah- nulth on the northwest coast , to act as moderator . On the first day , a panel of experts , mostly aboriginal , gave their opinions . At the end of the discussion Chief Watts asked them ...
... asked George Watts , the chief of the Nuu - chah- nulth on the northwest coast , to act as moderator . On the first day , a panel of experts , mostly aboriginal , gave their opinions . At the end of the discussion Chief Watts asked them ...
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... asked , " Where do you expect us to go ? " " Who do think you are , speaking to me that way ? " replied the mag- istrate angrily , and kicked their father in the stomach so hard they thought he might die — which he did not long ...
... asked , " Where do you expect us to go ? " " Who do think you are , speaking to me that way ? " replied the mag- istrate angrily , and kicked their father in the stomach so hard they thought he might die — which he did not long ...
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... asked about Highland Gaelic . In what language would you say , " Ng xanki #khoake ' aa " ; " Nu is dead " ? Language is a perennial contradiction . It is supposed to nourish communication , and yet often it does just the opposite . It ...
... asked about Highland Gaelic . In what language would you say , " Ng xanki #khoake ' aa " ; " Nu is dead " ? Language is a perennial contradiction . It is supposed to nourish communication , and yet often it does just the opposite . It ...
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If this is Your Land, where are Your Stories?: Reimagining Home and Sacred Space J. Edward Chamberlin No preview available - 2004 |
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