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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... mountains of the Rocky Mountain trench . These two great rivers pass within a hundred feet of each other , going in different direc- tions , at Canal Flats , where years ago they dug a canal to join the river systems . The rivers won ...
... mountains of the Rocky Mountain trench . These two great rivers pass within a hundred feet of each other , going in different direc- tions , at Canal Flats , where years ago they dug a canal to join the river systems . The rivers won ...
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... mountains , the most radical calling them- selves Freedomites and reading the Bible as an exile's covenant . Even more sternly than Rastafarians , they rejected any compromise with Babylon , burning houses and posses- sions ( including ...
... mountains , the most radical calling them- selves Freedomites and reading the Bible as an exile's covenant . Even more sternly than Rastafarians , they rejected any compromise with Babylon , burning houses and posses- sions ( including ...
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... mountains , fishing and hunting and farming and trading , for thousands of years . They have a story that tells of changes to one of the river valleys , near the mountain called Stekyooden , across from the village of Temlaxam . It was ...
... mountains , fishing and hunting and farming and trading , for thousands of years . They have a story that tells of changes to one of the river valleys , near the mountain called Stekyooden , across from the village of Temlaxam . It was ...
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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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