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"For peace and harmony to prevail, the truth must be told. We are instructed never to take hope from the people." Oren Lyons, Faithkeeper of the Turtle Clan of the Onondaga Nation Author of Exiled in the Land of the Free: Democracy, Indian Nations, and the US Constitution
"Parry's richly-textured book holds out hope and guidance for this moment of political conflict over diversity amid fear for the continuation of life on the planet. Inviting us to see how this challenge is the stimulus to transform the conflict into unity of purpose, the author provides us with a roadmap for how to do it through a new worldview that reestablishes an Indigenous connection with the natural world. This worldview priv ileges place over time, relationship over product, and revalues the femi nine, enabling us to rebalance culturally and ensure the survival of life on the planet."Sally Roesch Wagner, Founding director of the Matilda Joslyn Gage Foundation Author of Sisters in Spirit: Haudenosaunee Influence on Early American Feminists and The Women's Suffrage Movement
"Thank you, thank you, Niawen (in Mohawk), K'olabal (in Maya Tzotzil), muchas gracias, merci beaucoup, to you. If all 'white' people held such a deep consciousness for Natives as you do, the world would already be truly blessed and sacred. There is no way one can stay neutral when reading you, I'm crying, I'm touched, shaking and totally stirred up!!! This is all so good in spirit." Ohki Simine Forest (Canadian Mohawk), Author of Dreaming the Council Ways , is a vision-holder and spiritual teacher
"Some people are aware of the impact Native cultures had on the develop ment of the US. The vast majority are not. Original Politics finds a unique way of telling the true story." Harlan McKosato(Sac and Fox Nation), Former long-time host of the nationally syndicated radio show Native America Calling
"In a fractured time when a rude politics of nationalism rides in the high saddle as the climate crisis and many other environmental problems demand effective international co-operation, the world needs Glenn Aparicio Parry's Original Politics: Making America Sacred Again . Engag ingly written, mixing the best of the past and present, the indigenous and immigrant, appreciating everyone's beauty: that is how we forge a sustain able future. Parry traces a path. Life on Earth will be better if everyone everyone , regardless of race, religion, and classre-learns what many indigenous ancestors call "the original instructions." Read this book, enjoy it, and pass the word: we cooperate, or we face a hot, miserable future world squabbling over toxic crumbs." Bruce E. Johansen, Author of Forgotten Founders: How the American Indian Helped Shape Democracy and The Iroquois: The History and Culture of Native Americans
"In a brilliant historical retelling, Original Politics makes clear that Amer ica's sacred legacywhile appearing to have fallen in the ditch of a crude and phony populismis destined to be a thriving pluralistic democracy and a sanctuary of ecological values." James O'Dea, Former president of The Institute of Noetic Sciences, author of Cultivating Peace and The Conscious Activist
" Original Politics: Making America Sacred Again is an important and timely book for helping the United States move beyond its current crisis. Parry's writing flows beautifully and thoughtfully, as he shows how return ing to the nation's mix of Native and European roots can effectively meet its current problems and heal its divisions." Stephen Sachs, Author of Honoring the Circle: Ongoing Learning from American Indians on Politics and Society , with Bruce Johansen, Betty Booth Donohue, Donald Grinde, et al.
"In Original Politics , Parry draws on his lifetime of work in association with Native scholars and teachers as the lens through which he considers both the current polarized and dysfunctional American political situ ation and the coming global environmental catastrophe. Parry gently suggests that our public business, our politics, can only change when we return to the spiritual, caring values that characterize the way Native people see their purpose in life regarding nature: as guardians and care takers, not as masters, users or exploiters. These concepts were inherent in the principles the founding fathers appropriated from Native Amer ican tribes whom they lived and worked with . . . principles from which we have allowed ourselves to stray from at our peril." Senator GeraldP. "Jerry" Ortiz y Pino, New Mexico Legislature
Book Information
ISBN 9781590795033
Author Glenn Aparicio Parry
Format Paperback
Page Count 368
Imprint Select Books Inc
Publisher Select Books Inc
Weight(grams) 481g
Dimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 18mm