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[Review Of] Peter Balakian. Reply From Wilderness Island, Margaret Bedrosian Jan 1989

[Review Of] Peter Balakian. Reply From Wilderness Island, Margaret Bedrosian

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Reply from Wilderness Island is Peter Balakian's third published collection of poetry. As with his two earlier works, Father Fisheye (1979) and Sad Days of Light (1983), this most recent one brings together the personal and the historical, as the poet further discovers connections between an American identity and an Armenian ancestry. The first section of the volume is a series of poems about the poet's late father.

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[Review Of] Okah Tubbee. The Life Of Okah Tubbee, William A. Bloodworth Jr Jan 1989

[Review Of] Okah Tubbee. The Life Of Okah Tubbee, William A. Bloodworth Jr

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It is difficult to know what to make of The Life of Okah Tubbee because it is difficult to know what to make of Okah Tubbee. In the 1840s and 1850s he was a performing musician, a ventriloquist, and an "Indian doctor." He claimed to be a Choctaw chief’s son who, somehow, had begun life as a slave in Natchez, Mississippi. His autobiography, possibly written by his wife (possibly of Delaware and Mohawk extraction), appeared in several formats and editions in 1848 and 1852.

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[Review Of] James P. Danky And Maureen E. Hady, Eds. Native American Periodicals And Newspapers, 1828·1982, Donald L. Guimary Jan 1989

[Review Of] James P. Danky And Maureen E. Hady, Eds. Native American Periodicals And Newspapers, 1828·1982, Donald L. Guimary

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Native American Periodicals and Newspapers, 1828-1982 is a landmark publication. It is a comprehensive record and holdings list of extant issues of 1,164 historical and current periodicals published for the past 150 years . The scope of this volume is broad, covering literary, political, and historical journals as well as general newspapers and feature magazines.

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[Review Of] Michelle Maria Cruz Skinner. Balikbayan / A Filipino Homecoming, Oscar V. Campomanes Jan 1989

[Review Of] Michelle Maria Cruz Skinner. Balikbayan / A Filipino Homecoming, Oscar V. Campomanes

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Homecoming is that eternal and unrealizable dream for expatriated Filipinos, from the migrant workers of the 1930s to the skilled and professional immigrants of the last two decades. Sheer economic hardship or cultural estrangement after relocation consign them to limbo and leave-taking. Homecoming becomes an act to be imagined; a dream pursued by Carlos Bulosan in his village stories and 1950s novella, The Power of the People; a hope nursed by the "hurt men" of Bienvenido Santos's Scent of Apples (1981); an experience textualized by Ninotchka Rosca's account of the 1986 Four-Day Revolt in Endgame: The Fall of Marcos.

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[Review Of] Michael Thelwell. Duties, Pleasures, And Conflicts: Essays In Struggle, Samuel Hinton Jan 1989

[Review Of] Michael Thelwell. Duties, Pleasures, And Conflicts: Essays In Struggle, Samuel Hinton

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Duties, Pleasures, and Conflicts is a collection of previously published material on related issues, different genres and varied circumstances written over many years. If a good book is one that can evoke interest and response in the reader while at the same time relaying some sort of message, this book ranks in that category.

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[Review Of] Erna Fergusson. Dancing Gods: Indian Ceremonials Of New Mexico And Arizona, Charline L. Burton Jan 1989

[Review Of] Erna Fergusson. Dancing Gods: Indian Ceremonials Of New Mexico And Arizona, Charline L. Burton

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This new edition of Dancing Gods includes a six page foreword by Tony Hillerman, a fourteen page introduction by Erna Fergusson, and twelve pages of black and white illustrations prior to its 273 pages of manuscript. The text is arranged in nine units, with internal subdivisions, and ends with a ten page index.

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[Review Of] Rodolfo O. De La Garza, Ed. Ignored Voices: Public Opinion Polls And The Latino Community, Richard Santillan Jan 1989

[Review Of] Rodolfo O. De La Garza, Ed. Ignored Voices: Public Opinion Polls And The Latino Community, Richard Santillan

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The past several years have witnessed the publication of a handful of books and articles focusing on Latino politics in the United States. These studies fall into three general categories: the first type of research attempts to shatter the popular myths about the lack of political sophistication among Latinos by discussing institutional obstacles which hinder Latino political aspirations; the second kind of study documents the rich organizational history of Latinos over the past century; the third type of literature promotes a variety of theoretical models as a way to explain the lack of influence of Latinos on the electoral process.

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[Review Of] Simon Gikandi. Reading The African Novel, Cortland P. Auser Jan 1989

[Review Of] Simon Gikandi. Reading The African Novel, Cortland P. Auser

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Gikandi, has added an excellent critical work to his earlier volumes on new African writers. Employing the techniques of modern criticism, he analyzes significant works of eleven African writers including, among others, Wole Soyinka, Chinua Achebe, Ferdinand Oyono, and Ayi Kwei Armah. He is concerned with the form-content relationship in the novels examined, as well as the part played by centers of consciousness of main characters. As he states, he set out to "show how ... life and consciousness" move from external reality of the novel to "interiority."

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[Review Of] Felix M. Padilla. Puerto Rican Chicago, Jesse M. Vazquez Jan 1989

[Review Of] Felix M. Padilla. Puerto Rican Chicago, Jesse M. Vazquez

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Felix M. Padilla's Puerto Rican Chicago is a noteworthy contribution to the ever burgeoning literature on the Puerto Rican community in the United States. While it is clearly a detailed sociological history of the Puerto Rican community in Chicago, it is also a study which positions this community in a broader network of racial, ethnic and class interactions. As more literature documents and analyzes the histories of diverse Puerto Rican settlements (from New York to Hawaii), scholars will begin to form a more complete picture of the impact of migration, race, labor and industry, and culture on the development of …

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[Review Of] David Abalos. Latinos In The United States, Luis L. Pinto Jan 1989

[Review Of] David Abalos. Latinos In The United States, Luis L. Pinto

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Influenced by the teachings of his mentor and friend Manfred Halpern, David Abalos brings in this book a radically new understanding of the political choices that Hispanics living in the United States must make in their everyday struggle for survival.

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[Review Of] Lucha Corpi. Delia's Song, Laverne GonzáLez Jan 1989

[Review Of] Lucha Corpi. Delia's Song, Laverne GonzáLez

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Lucha Corpi's novel, Delia's Song, operates on several levels which remain basically disparate; that is, we seldom have a sense of complete integration. Perhaps, finally Delia herself, must be seen as symbolic of the Chicana in search of self, although even this falters at times. Finally we cannot be sure if Delia represents all Chicana women, the educated Chicana, or the emerging Chicana. Even her name, "Artemis, the one from Delos .... Delia, the beautiful huntress," compounds the dilemma. Huntress of what? We've witnessed her sexual encounters with various males, Daniel, Mario, Fernando, Roger (the Anglo), Jeff, which suggest that …

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[Review Of] Swami Nitya-Swarup-Ananda, Education For Human Unity And World Civilization, Margaret Bedrosian Jan 1989

[Review Of] Swami Nitya-Swarup-Ananda, Education For Human Unity And World Civilization, Margaret Bedrosian

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This work is of interest to any in ethnic studies for it outlines the need and process of establishing a new order of education which would serve the needs of cultural integrity and world unity. This latest version of Swami Nitya-Swarup-Ananda's description of such an education, published in 1986, is the culmination of decades of thought and observation by the author, who founded the Ramakrishna Institute of Culture in Calcutta. The Swami has also worked closely with UNESCO in furthering the aims of worldwide cultural education which would promote planetary diversity at the same time that it promotes world harmony.

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[Review Of] Ruthanne Lum Mccunn, Chinese American Portraits: Personal Histories, 1828·1988, Amy Ling Jan 1989

[Review Of] Ruthanne Lum Mccunn, Chinese American Portraits: Personal Histories, 1828·1988, Amy Ling

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With her latest book, Chinese American Portraits, Ruthanne Lum McCunn adds to her growing list of publications about the painful struggle and heroic survival of the Chinese in America. In an engaging novelistic style, accompanied by equally eloquent photographs, she tells detailed stories of seventeen diverse men and women, ranging from Yung Wing, educator and patriot, and the first Chinese to graduate from an American university (Yale, class of 1854), to Ho Yuet Fung, writer and filmmaker, who emigrated from Hong Kong in the 1970s. Interspersed within these primary narratives are photographs and lengthy captions telling the stories of other …

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[Review Of] Sterling Plumpp, Ed. Somehow We Survive: An Anthology Of South African Writing, David K. Bruner Jan 1989

[Review Of] Sterling Plumpp, Ed. Somehow We Survive: An Anthology Of South African Writing, David K. Bruner

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Somehow We Survive takes its title from an included poem by Dennis Brutus and is a collection of poems written in English by non-white South Africans. It is not a new book, having been published in 1982, but it still is worth the attention of Western readers, particularly of those who have not already become students of South Africa's shameful history of apartheid and the growing resistance of black and colored persons, both in direct action and literary activity. As the book is now available in paperback, at a modest price, it is worth having, in spite of its limitations.

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[Review Of] Jill Norgren And Serena Nanda. American Cultural Pluralism And The Law, Glen M. Kraig Jan 1989

[Review Of] Jill Norgren And Serena Nanda. American Cultural Pluralism And The Law, Glen M. Kraig

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The authors' stated purpose for creation of this book was that no work could be found which was appropriate for undergraduate students in an interdisciplinary course which related legal issues in case law to cultural pluralism. The authors stated that they desired to create "a book of readings drawing primarily on case law, but also including a wide variety of social science and humanitarian materials ... [with added] text which described and analyzed the content of these cases." The authors were very successful in this endeavor, in that they have put together an excellent compilation of cases which give a …

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[Review Of] Gary Soto. The Elements Of San Joaquin, Carl R. Shirley Jan 1989

[Review Of] Gary Soto. The Elements Of San Joaquin, Carl R. Shirley

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California's fertile San Joaquin Valley is the setting of this first published collection of poems by one of Chicano literature's leading voices [other books include The Tale of Sunlight (1978), Father Is a Pillow Tied to a Broom (1980), Where Sparrows Work Hard (1981), and Black Hair (1985)]. Thirty-eight poems comprise the three sections which take the reader through a series of disturbing images of the region. (Critic Bruce-Novoa has compared Elements with T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land). In the first poem, " San Fernando Road," migrants are described in the language of travail as men " Whose arms/Were …

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[Review Of] Karl H. Schlesier. The Wolves Of Heaven: Cheyenne Shamanism, Ceremonies, And Prehistoric Origins, William Willard Jan 1989

[Review Of] Karl H. Schlesier. The Wolves Of Heaven: Cheyenne Shamanism, Ceremonies, And Prehistoric Origins, William Willard

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Schlesier has a necessary footnote advisory to readers explaining the way in which he has structured The Wolves of Heaven. In the advisory Schelesier [Schlesier] writes that the book is a slow read on purpose so as to develop the story of how it was that the Tsistsistas (Cheyenne), came out of the boreal forest to become hunters of the northern plains, evolving eventually into the 19th century Tsistsistas bison hunting horse nomads.

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[Review Of] Philip E. Webber. Pella Dutch: The Portrait Of A Language And Its Use In One Of Iowa's Ethnic Communities, Phillips G. Davies Jan 1989

[Review Of] Philip E. Webber. Pella Dutch: The Portrait Of A Language And Its Use In One Of Iowa's Ethnic Communities, Phillips G. Davies

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This book does exactly what it says it will, namely to study how language is used by the some two hundred and fifty citizens of Pella who still make use of it. As such it should be useful to those interested in nineteeth [nineteenth] century emigrants from Europe whose descendants are still clinging to part of their ethnic roots.

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[Review Of] Irene I. Blea, Toward A Chicano Social Science, Glen M. Kraig Jan 1989

[Review Of] Irene I. Blea, Toward A Chicano Social Science, Glen M. Kraig

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The author's stated purpose of this work was to "inform the reader about the Chicano population and its concerns" and "the potential impact of the group on America's future." In that sense the work is a resounding success. The author correctly points out that "those who teach and design policy relevant to Hispanic children are few ... [and thus] the need to understand the Chicano in order not only to be able to provide services but also better race and ethnic relations in the United States" is great.

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[Review Of] Jennifer S.H. Brown And Robert Brightman. "The Orders Of The Dreamed":George Nelson On Cree And Northern Ojibwa Religion And Myth, 1823, Kenneth M. Morrison Jan 1989

[Review Of] Jennifer S.H. Brown And Robert Brightman. "The Orders Of The Dreamed":George Nelson On Cree And Northern Ojibwa Religion And Myth, 1823, Kenneth M. Morrison

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This text addresses the complex challenge of comprehending religious otherness. Brown and Brightman present a previously unpublished 1823 letter journal of fur trader George Nelson in which he reflects on his struggle to understand the Cree and Ojibwa people he knew at first hand. While he constantly wondered at the strangeness of Algonquian religion, he also expressed his admiration as frequently. The Cree and the Ojibwa were thoroughly religious and, paradoxical as it seemed to Nelson, he did admit that their religion worked.

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[Review Of] Luciano Mangiafico. Contemporary American Immigrants: Patterns Of Filipino, Korean And Chinese Settlement In The United States, Steven J. Gold Jan 1989

[Review Of] Luciano Mangiafico. Contemporary American Immigrants: Patterns Of Filipino, Korean And Chinese Settlement In The United States, Steven J. Gold

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Since the passage of the immigration acts of 1965, a large number of skilled Asians have migrated to the United States. Scholars have noticed this trend, labelling these, along with other skilled third world sojourners, "the new immigration."

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[Review Of] Langston Hughes. The Big Sea: An Autobiography, Alice A. Deck Jan 1989

[Review Of] Langston Hughes. The Big Sea: An Autobiography, Alice A. Deck

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In the last ten years a number of critical studies on the Harlem Renaissance have been published, and these in turn have sparked a revival of interest in the cultural, political, and social activities that took place during the ten-year period in Afroamerican history between 1919 and 1929. There is a renewed interest in the life and writings of Renaissance figures such as Arna Bontemps, Countee Cullen, Zora Neale Hurston, Nella Larson, Claude McKay, and Langston Hughes. Hence many of their autobiographies, first published in the 1930s and 1940s, are being reissued in response to the demand for more information …

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[Review Of] Mine Okubo. Citizen 13660, Neil Nakadate Jan 1989

[Review Of] Mine Okubo. Citizen 13660, Neil Nakadate

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Citizen 13660, first published in 1946, is part of the scant first-person record of Japanese American experience in the first half of the twentieth century. Like S. Frank Miyamoto's Social Solidarity Among the Japanese in Seattle (1939, repr. 1984) and Toshio Mori's Yokohama, California (1949, repr. 1986), Okubo's book has been given new life by the University of Washington Press.

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[Review Of] Felix M. Padilla. Latino Ethnic Consciousness: The Case Of Mexican Americans And Puerto Ricans In Chicago, Jesse M. Vazquez Jan 1989

[Review Of] Felix M. Padilla. Latino Ethnic Consciousness: The Case Of Mexican Americans And Puerto Ricans In Chicago, Jesse M. Vazquez

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Felix M. Padilla's contribution to the growing body of literature on Latino/Hispanic identity in the United States represents a significant departure from the way most social scientists have approached their analysis of ethnic identity and consciousness. On his way to putting together a conceptual framework for supporting his thesis of an emerging Latino ethnic identity and consciousness, Padilla provides a substantial in-depth analysis of the Mexican American and Puerto Rican community-based organization in Chicago during the early 1970s.

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[Review Of] Gilbert L. Wilson. Buffalo Bird Woman's Garden: Agriculture Of The Hidatsa Indians, Norma C. Wilson Jan 1988

[Review Of] Gilbert L. Wilson. Buffalo Bird Woman's Garden: Agriculture Of The Hidatsa Indians, Norma C. Wilson

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Buffalo Bird Woman's Garden was originally published in 1917 as Agriculture of the Hidatsa Indians: An Indian Interpretation. First written as Wilson's doctoral dissertation, the book is particularly informative about the gardening techniques of Hidatsa women. The narrative voice is that of Maxidiwiac (Buffalo Bird Woman). Thus, the book fits within the genre of as-told-to autobiography; however, the narrative is more focused and detailed than Wilson's general autobiography of the same woman, Waheenee: An Indian Girl's Story, published in 1921.

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[Review Of] Rodney Frey. The World Of The Crow Indians: As Driftwood Lodges, Robert Gish Jan 1988

[Review Of] Rodney Frey. The World Of The Crow Indians: As Driftwood Lodges, Robert Gish

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Ethnographic studies have long been plagued by questions of credibility. Can the ethnographer believe his or her sources? And, in turn, can readers believe the ethnographer? Ronald Frey knows full well that such issues of "believability" plague anyone attempting to understand a culture's otherness from the outside. He is determined to explain general historical, religious, and cultural aspects of "the world of the Crow Indians" from as close to the inside as he possibly can tell them.

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[Review Of] William L. Andrews. To Tell A Free Story: The First Century Of Afro-American Autobiography, 1760-1865, Suzanne Stutman Jan 1988

[Review Of] William L. Andrews. To Tell A Free Story: The First Century Of Afro-American Autobiography, 1760-1865, Suzanne Stutman

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William L. Andrews' To Tell a Free Story is a fine study of the history and development of the Afro-American narrative in its first century. Andrews presents the narrative in the hands of its creators as a dynamic form which, when studied for its process of telling, expresses the movement of its writers from an absence of self to a celebration of both self and community. It follows in the footsteps of Andrew's' other important contributions to the field of black studies, and promises to serve as a resource to which other studies of the genre can look.

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[Review Of] Richard Klayman. A Generation Of Hope: 1929-1941, Hannah Kliger Jan 1988

[Review Of] Richard Klayman. A Generation Of Hope: 1929-1941, Hannah Kliger

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There would be little disagreement among students of American Jewry that we know relatively little about the experience of Jews living in the smaller cities and towns of this country. In recent years, the number of community studies has grown. Typically, however, the research site is a larger metropolis, or else a circumscribed neighborhood of Jewish settlement in a major urban center.

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[Review Of] Dirk Hoerder, Ed. The Immigrant Labor Press In North America, 1840s-70s (Three Volumes), Cary D. Wintz Jan 1988

[Review Of] Dirk Hoerder, Ed. The Immigrant Labor Press In North America, 1840s-70s (Three Volumes), Cary D. Wintz

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Dirk Hoerder has undertaken a truly mammoth task -- the identification, analysis, and the location of surviving collections of the immigrant labor press published in the United States and Canada from the mid-nineteenth century to the present. For the most part his efforts have been successful. Without question he has provided researchers interested in the American immigrant experience or American labor history with a valuable research tool.

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[Review Of] Vinson Brown. Native Americans Of The Pacific Coast, William Oandasan Jan 1988

[Review Of] Vinson Brown. Native Americans Of The Pacific Coast, William Oandasan

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In the introduction to Native Americans of the Pacific Coast, Vinson Brown presents many admirable ambitions for any scholar writing on human existence. Brown proclaims that he will attempt to make the first Americans "live" in the style of the 1500s to 1700s during the "days of old" and of "glory and independence." He then proceeds to assert that, in order to accomplish this goal, antiquated concepts used to "justify" the conquest of tribal Peoples must be "put aside." He urges us, "instead," to be inquisitive and open so that we can "see and hear" what indigenous life was like …

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