false 2341675 1 Allison Hedge Coke, Guest Editor This volume is an attempt to bring together some of the diverseness and communalities from peoples who have been here since the earth, as we know it, was still forming and whose footprints mark the very rock in solidified molten imprint all over this greatly abundant rise of the planet. It is an attempt to bring together voices whose conversations once again are taking place in this day and time and who are coming together as sister nations despite the dissolution of trade ways which pre-existed colonization and joined peoples from a physically undivided continent pre-invasion and pre-Panama canal land division. Though contemporary referrals designate the place to be three separate entities (North, Central, and South America) the truth of the matter is this is one land base which gave birth to thousands and thousands of richly diverse cultures who shared in the abundance and gifts of the motherlands for eons before encroachment and who still live richly diverse lives oftentimes on, or very near significant places of origin and/or pre-colonial prophesy, and who deserve much more attention and place for world counsel than has been tolerated by any oppressively colonizing people or their descendants until this time whereas now there is no other answer. 2348370 2007 Ahani: Indigenous American Poetry total:1|5:1| 1 5 3 0 0 0 false false Thu Jan 22 19:37:36 -0800 2009 Thu Jan 22 19:37:36 -0800 2009 5 0 false false Wed Jan 21 23:12:47 -0800 2009 Wed Jan 21 23:12:47 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Sat May 17 13:44:57 -0700 2008 Sat May 17 13:44:57 -0700 2008 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=2341675