‘The sacred hoop: A contemporary Indian perspective on American literature.’ In The Remembered Earth, Geary Hobson, ed. ‘Iyani: It goes this way.’ In The Remembered Earth, Geary Hobson, ed. Boston: Beacon Press, 1986.Īllen, Paula Gunn. The Sacred Hoop: Recovering the Feminine in American Indian Traditions. San Francisco: Sierra Club Books, 1990, pp. ‘The woman I love is a planet the planet I love is a tree.’ In Reweaving the World: The Emergence of Ecofeminism, Irene Diamond and Gloria Feman Orenstein, eds. Boston: Beacon Press, 1991.Īllen, Paula Gunn. ‘Where I come from, God is a woman.’ Whole Earth Review 74:44-46,1992.
‘Noble savage or noble state? Northern myths and southern realities in biodiversity conservation.’ Ethnoecologica 2 (3): 719, 1994.Īllen, Paula Gunn. It is a matter of fact, one known equably from infancy, remembered and honoured at levels of awareness that go beyond consciousness, and that extend long roots into primary levels of mind, language, perception and all the basic aspects of being. That knowledge, though perfect, does not have associated with it the exalted romance of the sentimental ‘nature lovers’, nor does it have, at base, any self-conscious ‘appreciation’ of the land. The Earth is, in a very real sense, the same as our self (or selves). It is not a matter of being ‘close to nature’. It is rather a part of our being, dynamic, significant, real. It is not a means of survival, a setting for our affairs.
The land is not really the place (separate from ourselves) where we act out the drama of our isolate destinies. that is the fundamental idea embedded in Native American life the Earth is the mind of the people as we are the mind of the earth.
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