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Jen R.
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Nature made its way back into my life; it was not larger than life but life itself, a steady contact with nature that allowed me the greatest freedom to work and to grieve… it was precisely in the sweat and chill, the scents and odors of the world without a screen to seal off all senses but sight-and in the release from language- that nature could do its work..
Debra Kang Dean essay
— Feb 05, 2024 07:10AM
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Debra Kang Dean essay
Jen R.
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The older, original name for my people, "Anishinaabe," describes a larger group of Native Americans in the Great Lakes region. This name goes back to the creation stories and is usually interpreted to mean "original or spontaneous being."
beautiful essay by Melissa K Nelson
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beautiful essay by Melissa K Nelson
Jen R.
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The Rarámuri considered many of these plants … to have become plants after they first lived as humans.
-Enrique Salmon essay
Tom Porter, a Mohawk elder who no longer lives at Akwesasne, remembers the day when his family took their fishing nets and laid them on the banks of the Saint Lawrence, leaving them there to return to the earth, for the fish were not safe to eat.
-Joseph Bruchac essay
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-Enrique Salmon essay
Tom Porter, a Mohawk elder who no longer lives at Akwesasne, remembers the day when his family took their fishing nets and laid them on the banks of the Saint Lawrence, leaving them there to return to the earth, for the fish were not safe to eat.
-Joseph Bruchac essay
