EN119 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Beth Brant, Elijah Harper
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En119 week 13 (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) I mean you drive cars, watch television, go to hockey games. And you speak as good english as me. Latisha runs a restaurant and lionel sells televisions. My dam is part of the twentieth century, your house is part of the nineteenth. Why would king have eli and lionel enjoy reading/watching. Native people have an intimate relationship with the land and here, he continues, i am not talking about the romantic and spiritual clich s that have becomes so popular with advertisers, land developers, and well-meaning people with backpacks. While the relationship that native people have with the land certainly has a spiritual aspect to it, it is also a practical matter that balances respect with survival. It is an ethic that can be seen in the decisions and actions of a community or as the mohawk writer beth brant puts it, we do not worship nature.
