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We are the land. To the best of my understanding, that is the fundamental idea that permeates American Indian life.

We are the land. To the best of my understanding, that is the fundamental idea that permeates American Indian life.

Paula Gunn Allen
Land, Ideas, Understanding
Paula Gunn Allen (2015). “The Sacred Hoop: Recovering the Feminine in American Indian Traditions”, p.99, Open Road Media

The Indians used to be the only inhabitants of the Americas, but times change. Having perceived us as belonging to history, they are free to emote over us, to re-create us in their history-based understanding, and dismiss our present lives as archaic and irrelevant to the times.

Paula Gunn Allen
Understanding, Used, Present Life
Paula Gunn Allen (2015). “The Sacred Hoop: Recovering the Feminine in American Indian Traditions”, p.125, Open Road Media

Hoop Dancer is a rendering of my understanding of the process by which one enters into timelessness -- that place where one is whole.

Paula Gunn Allen
Dancer, Understanding, Process
Paula Gunn Allen (1986). “The Sacred Hoop: Recovering the Feminine in American Indian Traditions”, Boston : Beacon Press

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