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 64
... River ( and the Kootenai Indians ) up from Montana , past the flats to the headwaters high in the sawtooth mountains of the Rocky Mountain trench . These two great rivers pass within a hundred feet of each other , going in different ...
... River ( and the Kootenai Indians ) up from Montana , past the flats to the headwaters high in the sawtooth mountains of the Rocky Mountain trench . These two great rivers pass within a hundred feet of each other , going in different ...
Page 67
... river ; and of ingenuity and industry , identified with the government and the dams and developments they sponsor ... river , no less them- selves for being made useful to humans . In this image , the Columbia becomes a useful river ...
... river ; and of ingenuity and industry , identified with the government and the dams and developments they sponsor ... river , no less them- selves for being made useful to humans . In this image , the Columbia becomes a useful river ...
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... river ; the mist hovering over the deep tranquility of its upstream eddies and the pools below the rapids ; the sure and purposeful flow of the river as it went on its way to the ocean hundreds of miles away . He told how the salmon who ...
... river ; the mist hovering over the deep tranquility of its upstream eddies and the pools below the rapids ; the sure and purposeful flow of the river as it went on its way to the ocean hundreds of miles away . He told how the salmon who ...
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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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