Wisdom Sits in Places: Landscape and Language Among the Western Apache rice Featuring both fiction and nonfiction

Featuring both fiction and nonfiction — "stories" and "histories" — the book shows the ways that native traditions and beliefs work for characters who live physically and spiritually far from the reservation

a replica of an ancient Hawaiian canoe—Hōkūle'a—was launched to sail the ancient star paths

causing these characters’ lives to tumble into chaos and to reckon with the otherworldly and supernatural

“The radiance of this many-faceted novel is generated by Erdrich’s tenderness for her characters…magnificent…a brilliantly imagined and constructed saga of empathy

Wisdom Sits in Places: Landscape and Language Among the Western Apache rice Featuring both fiction and nonfictionThis remarkable book introduces us to four unforgettable Apache people, each of whom offers a different take on the significance of places in their culture. Apache conceptions of wisdom, manners and morals, and of their own history are inextricably intertwined with place, and by allowing us to overhear his conversations with Apaches on these subjects Basso expands our awareness of what place can mean to people. Most of us use the term "sense of place"