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Selu : seeking the Corn-Mother's wisdom
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"The Corn-Mother, called Selu by the Cherokee, is a living spirit to Native Americans. In this weaving of essays, poems and stories, we are introduced to the life-giving story of the Corn-Mother. A...
"The Corn-Mother, called Selu by the Cherokee, is a living spirit to Native Americans. In this weaving of essays, poems and stories, we are introduced to the life-giving story of the Corn-Mother. Among Selu's traditional survival wisdoms are strength, respect, balance, adaptability, and cooperation. Far from being irrelevant pieties, these common-sense teaching have a direct bearing on the concerns of today's society: the environment, women's issues, cultural diversity and government. In Selu, Cherokee/Appalachian writer Marilou Awiakta retraces her own path to Selu and tells how she dealt with issues such as the Tellico Dam controversy, the reunion of the Cherokee councils of East and West, the nuclear energy dilemma and the perception of a "woman's place." Through her story, readers will gain a deeper understanding of how their own lives weave into the Web of Life"--Jacket.
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- Creator
- Marilou Awiakta ; illustrations by Mary Adair
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- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Golden, Colo. : Fulcrum Pub., [1993]
- ©1993
- Physical Details
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- xii, 336 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 1555911447, 9781555911447, 1555912060, 9781555912062
- OCLC
- ocm28422727
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 331-334) and index.
- Text in English.
- A path to Selu : Trailhead : where path and stories begin : Heading east by way of four directions -- Dying back -- When Earth becomes an "it" -- Out of ashes peace will rise -- I offer you a gift -- Compass for our journey : Selu, a rare portrait -- Selu and Kanati : Genesis of human balance -- Following the deer trail -- Fixed bearings : the doublewoven basket -- Sisters and seed-thoughts -- Trail warning -- Killing our own seed : Arrow of warning and hope : the Cherokee vs. Tellico Dam -- Controversy -- Little deer and the snail darter -- Tellico : end of the trail -- The Last day of Roland the Cherokee -- The Press : watchdog with a blind eye -- Star vision -- Baring the atom's mother heart -- Where mountain and atom meet -- Grandmother Ishtoua teaches wisdom of the corn -- Old students of the new physics -- If the hand that rocks the cradle rules the world -- Memo to NASA -- Cherokee woman on the moon -- Mother nature sends a pink slip
- When the people call Earth "mother" : Amazons in Appalachia -- Red clay : when Awi Usdi walked among us -- Firming my step -- Rebirth of a nation : interview with Wilma Mankiller -- Selu and Kanati : marriage -- Cherokee Eden : an alternative to the apple -- Out! children at play on the atomic frontier -- Writing lesson from the ivy -- Living in the round : what Maria's bowl teaches me -- Honor to the founding elders of Oak Ridge -- Our courage is our memory : In the belly of the story is life for the people -- Daydreaming primal space : Cherokee aesthetics as habits of being -- Smoky mountain-woman -- Womanspirit in the high-tech world -- Little deer and the Selu conservancy -- Dawn birth
- Selu, spirit of survival : I offer you a gift -- The Rim of the basket : Selu, our mother, she who sustains, our life -- Greeting Selu and the sun -- Scent of survival -- Memory brings the past into the present -- Seeking wisdom with a "good mind" -- Unified thinking and inner balance -- How the corn-mother became a teacher of wisdom -- Selu and the sex expert : a healing principle -- Cooperation and government -- Harmony and adapting -- The Sweet heart of Selu : birth gift for my grandchildren -- The Law is in the corn : a story of American democracy -- Selu sings for survival -- The Ciphers