Radical Hope: Ethics in the Face of Cultural Devastation

Radical Hope: Ethics in the Face of Cultural DevastationShortly before he died, Plenty Coups, the last great Chief of the Crow Nation, told his storyup to a certain point. When the buffalo went away the hearts of my people fell to the ground, he said, and they could not lift them up again. After this nothing happened. It is precisely this pointthat of a people faced with the end of their way of lifethat prompts the philosophical and ethical inquiry pursued in Radical Hope. In Jonathan Lears view, Plenty

and political turns that are sure to continue

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Yet small things have great power

Through Peat''s insightful observations

a rare celestial event proscribed by the Sun Priest as an unbalancing of the world

–Dakota War and the resulting exile that sent the majority of the Dakota to prisons and reservations beyond the state’s boundaries

The Seed Keeper is lush and sustaining—a read that feeds heart and spirit in the same way as do the gardens that are their legacy

The story of a girlhood lived in the glow of a woodstove from one of the country's most distinguished and beloved authors

James Schlender

who for decades has been leading efforts to preserve the rich linguistic heritage of the world

after the hanging of thirty-eight Dakota men in the largest mass execution in U