The land is not really the place (separate from ourselves) where we act out the drama of our isolate destinies. It is not a means of survival, a setting for our affairs….It is rather a part of our being, dynamic, significant, real. It is our self.
– Paula Gunn Allen. “Iyani: It Goes This Way.” In The Remembered Earth: An Anthology of Contemporary Native American Literature, edited by Geary Hobson, 191–193. Albuquerque: Red Earth Press, 1979
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