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By Solinger Fox Ir

ISBN-10: 0203928067

ISBN-13: 9780203928066

ISBN-10: 0415960797

ISBN-13: 9780415960793

Telling tales to alter the area is a strong number of essays approximately community-based and interest-based tasks the place storytelling is used as a method for conversing out for justice. individuals from destinations around the globe—including Uganda, Darfur, China, Afghanistan, South Africa, New Orleans, and Chicago—describe grassroots initiatives within which groups use narrative as a manner of exploring what a extra simply society may well appear like and what civic engagement capability. those compelling debts of resistance, wish, and imaginative and prescient show off the facility of the storytelling shape to generate critique and collective motion. jointly, those initiatives show the modern strength of news to stimulate engagement, lively citizenship, the satisfaction of id, and the humility of human connectedness.

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Occupying the world that links the Earth and sky, birds are an indicator species, telling us what our lives have become and sometimes, of our destiny. We know them as our relatives through clanships of eagle and turkey, Zuni River—Shiwinan K’yawinanne • 19 crow and macaw, and through traditional stories like this one, that link the A:shiwi with collective memories and a history of place, being, and purpose. But today, there is only a dry riverbed after decades of impact from the Ramah Dam and other incursions by non-indigenous settlers and ranches.

Tia Oros Peters serves as Executive Director of the Seventh Generation Fund for Indian Development, an Indigenous peoples’ organization working for social, cultural, and environmental justice for Native nations. A. A. in Creative Writing from Antioch University. Further Reading Founded in 1977, Seventh Generation Fund for Indian Development is the oldest continually operating, identity-based fund dedicated to Native grassroots empowerment, community action, leadership development, cultural revitalization, and tribal sovereignty in the United States.

And, when they hear that you are sick, at least those who are supportive, they come very fast to support the family and the children no longer stay very miserable with no food, no water, the mother is sick and the children are very worried. They [the children] used to end up going to the streets. Now, they have hope that at least our mother will live, the brother is helping, and the Nsambya Home Care Clinic is coming in with the medicine—so, for them life goes on. Reaching Out in the Community Now, me, I work as a volunteer for Nsambya Home Care Clinic.

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