Simply Living: The Spirit of the Indigenous People
Ed. by Shirley Ann Jones with a Forward by Brooke Medicine Eagle & Preface by Rudolph C. RyserNew World Library: 1999.
(pp. 280)
Draw your attention, your mind and person, to a wonderful collection of thoughts from the far reaches of the earth-everywhere human beings have explored and become a part of the natural surroundings. Friends and colleagues of the Center for World Indigenous Studies speak many of the words you will read. Individuals whose homelands we have visited voice many other words in this book. They come from nations that work to defend themselves against encroachments by outside development or by violent wars aimed at destroying the people. The words you read are from Fourth World peoples who are simply living a life.
Shirley Ann Jones has prepared a collection of quotes given by indigenous peoples from Australia, to Scandinavia, Chile, Malaysia, Palestine, Uzbekistan, Japan, North America and scores of other places in the world. This is an inspirational book where people of the Fourth World speak to you from their thousands of different cultures and homes. A book you will carry with you.
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