Essay about Wisdom Sits in Places

Knowing Our Place is and excerpt from Barbara Kingsolver’s SMALL WONDER. The excerpt is basically all about the places where her life stories and where important times in her life take place. They all end up having to take place in the wilderness in a small town, in a small house in the middle of nowhere; where she had actually grown up. She talks about how her log cabin at the end of Walker Mountain is near tobacco plants and also how it has old historic nature to it. She talks about how she loves the rain and how it sounds in her little log cabin house that was built in the early 1900’s. She grew up and spent most her childhood in these woods filled with neighbor’s miles away and

The Lakota Indians, another name for the Western Sioux tribe, were true lovers of Nature and lived true to the land, believing it was sacred. The Lakota’s adamantly placed nature at the center of their religious beliefs, incorporating it throughout their life. They placed importance on nature seen as early as childhood education, which stayed with each individual until they joined with the soil once more at death. In an article on the Lakota’s religious traditions, it is explained that the tribe of Western Sioux Indians aligned their lives and religious traditions and ceremonies around nature (William 5295). In Standing Bear’s “Nature”, the meaning of the Lakota religion personifies nature and earth. Standing Bear’s literature speaks as if Mother Nature acted as a true maternal influence upon the lives of the Western Sioux tribe. Standing Bear writes, “Wherever the Lakota went, he was with Mother Earth. No matter where he roamed by day or slept by night, he was safe with her.” (Finch 327). Nature shaped the Lakota’s; the teachings that came forth from nature guided the tribe throughout life. They lived upon the soil, walked on the sacred earth, and were healed, soothed, strengthened, and cleansed by the power of Mother Nature. Luther Standing Bear personifies Earth, giving it life-giving forces and medicinal powers, very similar to that of an actual mother of flesh and blood. The Western Sioux tribe had nothing but respect and love for all things born from Mother Nature: animals, plants, even the wind, rain, and lightening. Standing Bear explains, “The character of the Indian’s emotion left little room in his heart for antagonism toward his fellow creatures, this attitude giving him what is sometimes

Sense of place is a perspective of geography that can be seen in John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath. As noted in The Human Mosaic sense of place is a term used to connote the humanistic view of geography, it seeks to understand the unique character of individual regions and places. In The Grapes of Wrath, farmers and their families are being kicked off of their land, when one family is selling all of their belongings one exclaims “This land, this red land, is us; and the flood years and the dust years and the drought years, are us. We can’t start again… And when the owner men told us to go, that’s us; and when the tractor hit the house, that’s us until we’re dead.” This was land was their place, they made memories there. Power and Ideology

This is the history of a beautiful region that takes place back in 1850’s when the Sioux and Winnebago tribes lived in these lands. These tribes spread around the Midwest mostly for their food, which include buffaloes (wild Bison), deer, antelope, and wild turkey and hens, wild fruits cherries, berries, and plums and wild vegetables potatoes, spinach, and prairie turnips. These tribes lived in peace and harmony until Joseph Hewitt and James Dickirson arrived in the area in 1851. Joseph Hewitt and James Dickirson settlement soon became an amicable town. Hewitt traded goods with the indian tribes and Dickirson had rich soil for farming.

The earliest known inhabitants of the area were Waccamaw and Winyah Native Americans. They called the area "Chicora", meaning "the land", and the term is frequently used by locals.1

Landscape, History, and the Pueblo Imagination is different than the first two stories. Although Silko is describing what she sees, Silko is also describing what other people are seeing. Silko describes people as part of the land and not just people.“Viewers are as much a part of the landscape as the boulders they stand on”. (Silko pg.92) Silko is saying that landscape is everything seen, not just selected items.

The Apache people live in Arizona, Texas, New Mexico, and Colorado. Their name comes from the Zuni language and means “enemy”. Despite this harsh name, the Apache people still have others refer to them and refer to themselves as Apache. The Apache tribe has many unique cultures and traditions. In order to research the Apache people and avoid distorted information, a primary source was used as well as reference sources such as databases. Freddie Kaydahzinne, the museum director and a member of the Apache tribe answered a few questions about the Apache tribe over the phone.

The foundation of the mound ultimately led to the Town Creek area being an epicenter of life for the ‘Pee Dee’ Indians and surrounding Piedmont Indian tribes. It was defined as an epicenter of life because it was the place where items were traded, where government decisions were made, and celebrations were held (Peoples of the Piedmont). To make matters simple, it was a functioning community in today’s standards of the American town or

There is a deep relationship between the environment and Western Apache people. The bonds between the two are so strong that it is embedded in their culture and history. Keith Basso, author of Wisdom Sits in Places expanded on this theory and did so by divulging himself into Western Apaches life. He spent fifteen years with the Apache people studying their relationship with the environment, specifically concentrating on ‘Place-names.’ When Basso first began to work with the Apache people, one of his Apache friends told him to ‘learn the names,’ because they held a special meaning with the community. (Cruikshank 1990: 54) Place-names are special names given to a specific locality where an event

We must never speak of the times before the Great Rebirth, else we are sentenced to three years in the Palace of Corrective Detention. It is only the Old Ones who whisper about it in the evenings, in the Home of the Useless. They whisper many strange things, of the towers which rose to the sky, in those Unmentionable Times, and of the wagons which moved without horses, and of the lights which burned without flame.

Today we stand in footsteps millennia old. May we acknowledge the traditional owners whose cultures and customs have nurtured, and continue to nurture, this land, since men and women awoke from the great dream. We respect and honour the presence of these ancestors who reside in the imagination of this land and whose irrepressible deep sense of being moves through all creation.

People are drawn to Fiordland for the untouched landscapes, extreme wilderness and natural history of the area.

The data, information, knowledge, wisdom continuum is applied in our practice daily. This continuum guide our practice in providing safe and competent nursing care to the public. Now, the continuum will be applied in my research on pain management in patients diagnosed with brain tumors. With that said, the continuum will aid with identifying relevant data and information in this research. While brainstorming ways that the knowledge can be utilized in my practice, the continuum will help in the understanding of wisdom in the application of gained knowledge.

The realm of fantasy literature is categorized by authors' use of sweeping, alien, settings and the desire to escape from the banal vistas of Earth's familiar geography. What happens when readers delve deeper into the chasms of unknown ravines, sweep through foreign valleys, scale faraway mountains, and realize that these alien backdrops are closely related to their own home-planet? In The Inheritance Cycle, author Christopher Paolini introduces readers to the beautiful Alagaësia: a world populated by humans, elves, magic-wielders, dwarves, urgals, and dragon-riders. The physical features of Alagaësia and the native lands inhabited by the above listed peoples are closely tied together. The natives parallel the characteristics of the lands they inhabit from geologic creation to geographic location. Christopher Paolini's imagined landscape is heavily influenced by the geological features of his native Paradise Valley, Montana1. His Inheritance Cycle features identifiable passages where Alagaësia's geography essentially duplicates that of Earth's. The creation process of geologic features directly impacts the characterizations of Alagaësia's inhabitants. To fully appreciate this mirroring, there must first be an introduction to the lands of Alagaësia. The defining characteristics of three of Alagaësia's races can be predicted by the geologic features of the lands they inhabit. The three races and geologic features that will be discussed include: the Dwarven race who inhabit

According to Professor Basso’s idea, there is a key connection amongst people’s thought and spoken language, and their geographical environment. He describes the significance of alien local objects and behaviors. He also emphasizes the specificity of every places, society and how our understanding of the external realities are products of our local cultural materials. Aware of nothing of the latter will have an influence on one’s sense of things in one’s environment. Therefore, communications not just on the basis of language but also on geography, physical characteristics and culture relations. Professor Anderson said that languages seem colorful in the history of a landscape, which indicating those linguistic subtleties will vanish when they