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The Sacred Hoop: Recovering the Feminine in American Indian Traditions
by Paula Gunn Allen,unknown
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This pioneering work, first published in 1986, documents the continuing vitality of American Indian traditions and the crucial role of women in those traditions.
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Thu Jul 19 07:49:33 UTC 2007
Source: The Sacred Hoop: Recovering the Feminine in American Indian Traditions, Page: 150
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-Paula Gunn Allen said

The hoop dancer dances within what encircles him, demonstrating how the people live in motion within the circling spirals of time and space. They are no more limited than water and sky. At green corn dance time, water and sky come together, in Indian time, to make rain.

Thu Jul 19 07:43:58 UTC 2007
Source: The Sacred Hoop: Recovering the Feminine in American Indian Traditions, Page: 150
Contributed by: Meenakshi.
-Paula Gunn Allen said

Tthe basis of Indian time is ceremonial, while the basis of time in the industrialized west is mechanical.