Wisdom Sits in Places: Landscape and Language Among the Western Apache rice poems directly address non-Native readers

poems directly address non-Native readers and public consciousness

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One of the most revered novelists of our time—a brilliant chronicler of Native-American life—Louise Erdrich returns to the territory of her bestselling

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Wisdom Sits in Places: Landscape and Language Among the Western Apache rice poems directly address non-Native readersThis remarkable book introduces us to four unforgettable Apache people, each of whom offers a different take on the significance of places in their culture. Apache conceptions of wisdom, manners and morals, and of their own history are inextricably intertwined with place, and by allowing us to overhear his conversations with Apaches on these subjects Basso expands our awareness of what place can mean to people. Most of us use the term "sense of place"