Where the Lightning Strikes: The Lives of American Indian Sacred Places
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From the author of Native American Testimonycomes 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 locations in their homelands. In Where the Lightning Strikes, Peter Nabokov offers sixteen biographies of place? that dramatize the rich diversity of Indian cultures...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0670034320
ISBN13:9780670034321
Release Date:January 2006
Publisher:Viking Books
Length:350 Pages
Weight:1.20 lbs.
Dimensions:1.3" x 6.3" x 9.3"
Age Range:18 years and up
Grade Range:Postsecondary and higher
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Court battles for Native sacred places
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Peter Nabokov's WHERE THE LIGHTNING STRIKES: THE LIVES OF AMERICAN INDIAN SACRED PLACES surveys Native American culture and the myths and legends which have kept their close connections with the environment. Chapters are arranged by the four cardinal directions and use four major court cases in which Indians fought against destruction of key sacred places to bring together both past belief and modern controversies surrounding these places. There's a tendency to view Indians as 'ecological saints': WHERE THE LIGHTNING STRIKES takes a different approach, analyzing Indian environmental habits, spirituality and social issues as entwined facets of the whole.
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