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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Page 108
... 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 genera- tions 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 genera- tions while Indians languished on reserves . A good part of the ...
Page 220
... 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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