Native American Sacred Places

Author : Peter Nabokov
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1440628599
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Where the Lightning Strikes written by Peter Nabokov and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2007-03-27 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of How the World Moves: A revelatory new look at the hallowed, diverse, and threatened landscapes of the American Indian For thousands of years , Native Americans have told stories about the powers of revered landscapes and sought spiritual direction at mysterious places in their homelands. In this important book, respected scholar and anthropologist Peter Nabokov writes of a wide range of sacred places in Native America. From the “high country” of California to Tennessee’s Tellico Valley, from the Black Hills of South Dakota to Rainbow Canyon in Arizona, each chapter delves into the relationship between Indian cultures and their environments and describes the myths and legends, practices, and rituals that sustained them.

Author : Joseph Bruchac
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 9780152020620
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Between Earth and Sky written by Joseph Bruchac and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 1999-04-19 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With grace and drama, Abenaki poet and author Joseph Bruchac retells ten Native American legends of awe-inspiring landscapes. These wise stories, together with Thomas Locker's luminous paintings, evoke the sacred places above, below, and within us all. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Indian Affairs (1993- )
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 572 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Native American Sacred Places written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Indian Affairs (1993- ) and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 572 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Indian Affairs
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 114 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Native American Sacred Places written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Indian Affairs and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Andrew Gulliford
Publisher : Niwot, Colo. : University Press of Colorado
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sacred Objects and Sacred Places written by Andrew Gulliford and published by Niwot, Colo. : University Press of Colorado. This book was released on 2000 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The issues of returning human remains, curating sacred objects, and preserving tribal traditions are addressed to provide the reader with a full picture of Native Americans' struggle to keep their heritage alive."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : United States. Congress
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781985582538
Total Pages : 108 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Native American Sacred Places written by United States. Congress and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-02-17 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Native American sacred places : hearing before the Committee on Indian Affairs, United States Senate, One Hundred Eighth Congress, first session on, June 18, 2003.

Author : Michael D. McNally
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691190909
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Defend the Sacred written by Michael D. McNally and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2020-04-14 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In 2016, thousands of people travelled to North Dakota to camp out near the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation to protest the construction of an oil pipeline that is projected to cross underneath the Missouri River a half mile upstream from the Reservation. The Standing Rock Sioux consider the pipeline a threat to the region's clean water and to the Sioux's sacred sites (such as its ancient burial grounds). The encamped protests garnered front-page headlines and international attention, and the resolve of the protesters was made clear in a red banner that flew above the camp: "Defend the Sacred". What does it mean when Native communities and their allies make such claims? What is the history of such claim-making, and why has this rhetorical and legal strategy - based on appeals to religious freedom - failed to gain much traction in American courts? As Michael McNally recounts in this book, Native Americans have repeatedly been inspired to assert claims to sacred places, practices, objects, knowledge, and ancestral remains by appealing to the discourse of religious freedom. But such claims based on alleged violations of the First Amendment "free exercise of religion" clause of the US Constitution have met with little success in US courts, largely because Native American communal traditions have been difficult to capture by the modern Western category of "religion." In light of this poor track record Native communities have gone beyond religious freedom-based legal strategies in articulating their sacred claims: in (e.g.) the technocratic language of "cultural resource" under American environmental and historic preservation law; in terms of the limited sovereignty accorded to Native tribes under federal Indian law; and (increasingly) in the political language of "indigenous rights" according to international human rights law (especially in light of the 2007 U.N. Declaration of the Rights of Indigenous Peoples). And yet the language of religious freedom, which resonates powerfully in the US, continues to be deployed, propelling some remarkably useful legislative and administrative accommodations such as the 1990 Native American Graves Protection and Reparation Act. As McNally's book shows, native communities draw on the continued rhetorical power of religious freedom language to attain legislative and regulatory victories beyond the First Amendment"--

Author : Joseph Bruchac
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780780457980
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Between Earth and Sky written by Joseph Bruchac and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Courtney Milne
Publisher : Harry N. Abrams
ISBN 13 : 9781556709579
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sacred Places in North America written by Courtney Milne and published by Harry N. Abrams. This book was released on 1999-08-10 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the dawn of the 1990 autumn equinox, Courtney Milne climbed into the bucket of a hydraulic lift and was hoisted forty feet into the air beside the Big Horn Medicine Wheel in northern Wyoming. From that perspective, it seemed to him as though the Big Horn wheel linked the distant plains with the heavens. And so, the wheel became the starting point of his photographic journey as he followed each spoke across the continent in search of sacred landscapes.

Author : Joe Watkins
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1438101295
Total Pages : 139 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sacred Sites and Repatriation written by Joe Watkins and published by Infobase Publishing. This book was released on 2009 with total page 139 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An issue of paramount concern to the Native American community, repatriation as it relates to sacred sites is explored in detail from both sides of the ongoing debate.