Touch the Earth

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TOUCH THE EARTH A Self-Portrait of Indián Existence T.C. McLuhan We did not think of the great open piairts, the beautiful rolling hills, and the winding streams with tangled growth, as "wild." Only to the white man was nature a "wilderness" and only to him was the land "infested" with "wild" animals and "savage" people. To us it was tame. Earth was bountiful and we were surrounded with the blessings of the Great Mystery. Not until the hairy man from the east came and with brutal frenzy heaped injustices upon us and the families we loved was it "wild" for us. When the very animals of the forest began fleeing from his approach, then it was that for us the "Wild West" began. Chief Luther Standing Bear of the Oglala band of Sioux TOUCH THE EARTH is a selection of statements and writings by North American Indians, chosen to illuminate the course of Indián history and the abiding values of Indián life. The passages, arranged in four chronological sections, rangé from the witty, the... Tovább

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TOUCH THE EARTH A Self-Portrait of Indián Existence T.C. McLuhan We did not think of the great open piairts, the beautiful rolling hills, and the winding streams with tangled growth, as "wild." Only to the white man was nature a "wilderness" and only to him was the land "infested" with "wild" animals and "savage" people. To us it was tame. Earth was bountiful and we were surrounded with the blessings of the Great Mystery. Not until the hairy man from the east came and with brutal frenzy heaped injustices upon us and the families we loved was it "wild" for us. When the very animals of the forest began fleeing from his approach, then it was that for us the "Wild West" began. Chief Luther Standing Bear of the Oglala band of Sioux TOUCH THE EARTH is a selection of statements and writings by North American Indians, chosen to illuminate the course of Indián history and the abiding values of Indián life. The passages, arranged in four chronological sections, rangé from the witty, the eloquent, the lyric, to the deeply emotional. Together they recount the nature and fate of the Indián way of life and how it now seeks to revivify itself as a self-affirming cultural force. Throughout the selections one sees the values that distinguish Indián life-and that today make it something more than an object of either historical or political interest. Especially, there are the values of living in harmony with nature and of regarding the land as a sacred creation. This part of the Indián experience, readers of TOUCH THE EARTH will discover, can become the heritage of all of us. Vissza