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TieDyeDude
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Pickpick

I selected this book for The Storygraph's genre challenge. It is a great introduction to the struggles of indigenous people throughout the history of the United States. It is especially important to recognize their fight as our government continues to ignore their sovereignty, as evidenced by the recent Supreme Court ruling for greed over non-Christian religious freedom.

TieDyeDude https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/supreme-court/supreme-court-turns-away-native-a...

It really makes me want to see if there is anything good buried under Salt Lake Temple or Cathedral Basilica.
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AlaMich Beautiful cat! 😻 4d
dabbe 🖤🐾🖤 4d
Jari-chan Great review, great book, great cat 4d
AnnCrystal 📚👏🏼🤩✨😸💫. 4d
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KCofKaysville
The Delight Makers | Adolph Bandelier
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I am trying out this old novel about cliff dwellers near Los Alamos, NM. Author was a scientist who died in 1914.

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notreallyelaine

It took a long time to explain the fragility and intricacy because no word exists alone, and the reason for choosing each word had to be explained with a story about why it must be said this certain way. That was the responsibility that went with being human, old Koosh said, the story behind each word must be told so there could be no mistake in the meaning of what had been said; and this demanded great patience and love.

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BarbaraJean
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SUCH a powerful book. Steven Charleston is a (now retired) Episcopal bishop and a citizen of the Choctaw Nation. This book tells a bit of his journey to integrate and faithfully follow both paths of his spiritual heritage. The first half of the book gives background for the second half, as Charleston orients the reader in his faith and Native heritage, contextualizing Christianity in terms of Native American perspectives and traditions. ⤵️

BarbaraJean (Cont‘d) Then the second half interprets four different experiences from the life of Christ through the lens of Native tradition. I found a lot of the second half challenging to wrap my head around, but also deeply illuminating. And the history and context, while not wholly unknown to me, was even more heartbreaking to absorb, coming as it does through a lens of Christianity‘s role in colonialism. 1mo
Tamra I‘m likely to hoard this one once I get it because I think I‘m going to love it! I‘m weird that way. 🤪 1mo
BarbaraJean @Tamra It is excellent and accessible but also challenging—both emotionally and on a perspective-shifting level! 1mo
Tamra @BarbaraJean oops, I meant that comment for Stoneyard Devotional, but honestly this one is intriguing too. Stacking! 1mo
BarbaraJean @Tamra 😂 😂 They're BOTH excellent, for very different reasons! 4w
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BarbaraJean
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“…it was not until 1978 that Native Americans were allowed to practice their religious beliefs, in spite of what the First Amendment to the Constitution had guaranteed to Americans for over 200 years.
In 1978 Congress passed the American Indian Religious Freedom Act… for the first time in the 400-year history between Europeans and Native Americans, the religious practices of Native nations were not banned.”

BarbaraJean So much for “freedom of religion.” Just for the colonizers, apparently. Much like “all men are created equal” just meant white men. 😡 1mo
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PaperbackPirate
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Happy Poetry Month!

Today I finished this book of poems which I‘ve been reading a bit at a time for 7 months.
Some of them I loved. Some I didn‘t connect with.
It is clear, however, she was our Poet Laureate for a reason! She can use words to paint a picture of what‘s happening in the heart.

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🌵 Taken today at Saguaro National Park

dabbe 💚🌵💚 1mo
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wanderinglynn
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All the Tired Horses in the Sun by Joy Harjo

#aprilpoetrychallenge for #nationalpoetrymonth

9 April - waiting

dabbe 💙💚🩵 2mo
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lil1inblue
Love Medicine: A Novel | Louise Erdrich
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I've read 23 or so from this week's #threelistthursday

3 that left an impression:
🩵 Love Medicine
🩵 King Lear
🩵 In the Time of Butterflies

3 on the TBR:
🩵 The Inheritance of Loss
🩵 Kindred
🩵 Invisible Man

1 Confession:
I loathe Hemingway. 🫣😂

#tlt @dabbe

dabbe A few of these are on my TBR, too! Now I have to ask, any particular reason why you loathe Hemingway? I've only read a few of his short stories and have never wanted to tackle his novels. 😂 Thanks for playing and sharing. 🩶🩵🩶 4mo
TheBookHippie @dabbe I shall once again declare you all are reading Hemingway incorrectly 😂😂😂😂 I love him. @lil1inblue fyi just giving @dabbe crap 😂😂😂😂 4mo
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lil1inblue @dabbe I've read 3 or 4 novels by him. Each one was an utter slog to get through. I just couldn't connect. I find his writing to be self-indulgent. I also think he was an a$$ and a misogynist, and I do think that comes through in his writing. 4mo
lil1inblue @TheBookHippie 😂 😂 😂 Absolutely no worries. Different strokes for different folks, right! 😉 4mo
TheBookHippie @lil1inblue Ha. Should be said I fell in love with his short stories 30 plus years ago, along with being deeply troubled, he was helpful to women writers. Hemingway's early works, like Cat in the Rain, showed a feminist perspective that focused on women's social and gender role. So yes he could be self involved and misogynist, as well but I don‘t read it that way most of the time. Some of his prose about heartbreak is just so good. 😅🙃🤪🤷🏻‍♀️😂 4mo
lil1inblue @TheBookHippie That's fair. I don't think I've read any of his short stories (if I did, I don't remember), so perhaps my opinion is a bit uninformed. I will say I think there is value in the conversations about his writing - both the good and the bad. I don't regret reading his books - even if I didn't care for them, they made me think. I just don't think I could force myself to read any more. 😂 4mo
TheBookHippie @lil1inblue I have that with many authors 😂😂😂 4mo
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olivia.d

“We are grateful for the stories passed down to us, for the songs that tell us who we are”