Seeing with a native eye: essays on native American religionArticles providing insight into the religion of native North Americans illuminate the Indian world view and Indian patterns of perception, ceremonies, and sensitivity to nature |
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... experience came when I was trying to educate him to what the outside world looked like. Here was an eighty- or ninety-year-old man in the 1950s who had never seen a paved road or a train; he had seen airplanes flying overhead and was ...
... experience came when I was trying to educate him to what the outside world looked like. Here was an eighty- or ninety-year-old man in the 1950s who had never seen a paved road or a train; he had seen airplanes flying overhead and was ...
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... experience, supported by the forms of language, and made immediate through experienced interrelationships with the elements of each people's natural environment, it is impossible to conceive of progress in the contemporary non-Indian ...
... experience, supported by the forms of language, and made immediate through experienced interrelationships with the elements of each people's natural environment, it is impossible to conceive of progress in the contemporary non-Indian ...
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... experience. I think his attitude toward the landscape has been formulated over a long period of time, and the length of time itself suggests an evolutionary process perhaps instead of a purely rational and decisive experience. Now I am ...
... experience. I think his attitude toward the landscape has been formulated over a long period of time, and the length of time itself suggests an evolutionary process perhaps instead of a purely rational and decisive experience. Now I am ...
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