Cherokee Earth Dwellers: Stories and Teachings of the Natural World

Cherokee Earth Dwellers: Stories and Teachings of the Natural WorldAyetli gadogvto "stand in the middle"is at the heart of a Cherokee perspective of the natural world. From this stance, Cherokee Earth Dwellers offers a rich understanding of nature grounded in Cherokee creature names, oral traditional stories, and reflections of knowledge holders. During his lifetime, elder Hastings Shade created booklets with over six hundred Cherokee names for animals and plants. With this foundational collection at its center, and

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and the faith that enabled her to survive alone on a remote island in the Arctic Sea

who was born in the mid-19th century and lived during a chaotic time of enormous change

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" all of these works explore both what it means to be a woman and how those realities are complicated by the Native American experience

the river valley--even in the feeding of friends and family--we can reclaim and honor our relationship with Mother Earth

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the brilliant young biologist Merlin Sheldrake shows us the world from a fungal point of view