Paula Gunn Allen Quotes About Understanding

Quotes about: Understanding

• There are many female gods recognized and honored by the tribes and Nations. Femaleness was highly valued, both respected and feared, and all social institutions reflected this attitude. Even modern sayings, such as the Cheyenne statement that a people is not conquered until the hearts of the women are on the ground, express the Indians understanding that without the power of woman the people will not live, but with it, they will endure and prosper.

  Paula Gunn Allen

  Inspiring, Attitude, Heart

  Paula Gunn Allen (2015). “The Sacred Hoop: Recovering the Feminine in American Indian Traditions”, p.172, Open Road Media

• The Indians used to be the only inhabitants of the Americas, but times change. Having perceived us as belonging to history, they are free to emote over us, to re-create us in their history-based understanding, and dismiss our present lives as archaic and irrelevant to the times.

  Paula Gunn Allen

  Understanding, Used, Present Life

  Paula Gunn Allen (2015). “The Sacred Hoop: Recovering the Feminine in American Indian Traditions”, p.125, Open Road Media

• We are the land. To the best of my understanding, that is the fundamental idea that permeates American Indian life.

  Paula Gunn Allen

  Land, Ideas, Understanding

  Paula Gunn Allen (2015). “The Sacred Hoop: Recovering the Feminine in American Indian Traditions”, p.99, Open Road Media

• Hoop Dancer is a rendering of my understanding of the process by which one enters into timelessness -- that place where one is whole.

  Paula Gunn Allen

  Dancer, Understanding, Process

  Paula Gunn Allen (1986). “The Sacred Hoop: Recovering the Feminine in American Indian Traditions”, Boston : Beacon Press

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