Selu

by Awiakta, Marilou; Adair, Mary

• ISBN13: 9781555911447
• ISBN10: 1555911447
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1993-10-01
• Publisher: Fulcrum Pub

Summary

The Corn-Mother, called Selu by the Cherokee, is a living spirit to Native Americans. By sharing a Cherokee writer's path to the Corn-Mother, the reader discovers spiritual tools for facing the important issues of our times--from the nuclear dilemma to the devastation of our environment. 15 illus.

Table of Contents

Foreword
Acknowledgments
Introduction
A Path to Selu
Trailhead - Where Path and Stories Begin	p. 3
Heading East by Way of Four Directions	p. 4
Compass for Our Journey: Selu, A Rare Portrait	p. 9
Selu and Kanati: Genesis of Human Balance	p. 23
Following the Deer Trail	p. 26
Fixed Bearings: The Doublewoven Basket	p. 34
Sisters and Seed-Thoughts	p. 36
Trail Warning	p. 39
Killing Our Own Seed	p. 41
Arrow of Warning and Hope: The Cherokee vs. Tellico Dam Controversy	p. 42
Star Vision	p. 65
Baring the Atom's Mother Heart	p. 66
Where Mountain and Atom Meet	p. 72
Grandmother Ishtoua Teaches Wisdoms of the Corn	p. 73
Old Students of the New Physics	p. 84
If the Hand That Rocks the Cradle Rules the World	p. 85
Memo to NASA	p. 86
Cherokee Woman on the Moon	p. 87
Mother Nature Sends a Pink Slip	p. 88
When the People Call Earth "Mother"	p. 91
Amazons in Appalachia	p. 92
Red Clay: When Awi Usdi Walked Among Us	p. 100
Firming My Step	p. 111
Rebirth of a Nation: Interview with Wilma Mankiller	p. 112
Selu and Kanati: Marriage	p. 117
Cherokee Eden: An Alternative to the Apple	p. 118
Out! Children at Play on the Atomic Frontier	p. 123
Writing Lesson from the Ivy	p. 131
Living in the Round: What Maria's Bowl Teaches Me	p. 136
Honor to the Founding Elders of Oak Ridge	p. 142
Our Courage Is Our Memory	p. 153
In the Belly of the Story Is Life for the People	p. 154
Daydreaming Primal Space: Cherokee Aesthetics as Habits of Being	p. 167
Smoky Mountain-Woman	p. 183
Womanspirit in the High-tech World	p. 184
Little Deer and the Selu Conservancy	p. 200
Dawn Birth	p. 204
Selu, Spirit of Survival
I Offer You a Gift	p. 207
The Rim of the Basket: Selu, Our Mother, She Who Sustains, Our Life	p. 208
Greeting Selu and the Sun	p. 209
Scent of Survival	p. 215
Memory Brings the Past into the Present	p. 217
Seeking Wisdom with a "Good Mind"	p. 228
Unified Thinking and Inner Balance	p. 230
How the Corn-Mother Became a Teacher of Wisdom	p. 238
Selu and the Sex Expert: A Healing Principle	p. 247
Cooperation and Government	p. 267
Harmony and Adapting	p. 283
The Sweet Heart of Selu: Birth Gift for My Grandchildren	p. 289
The Law Is in the Corn: A Story of American Democracy	p. 302
Selu Sings for Survival	p. 320
The Ciphers	p. 326
Notes	p. 331
Index of Poems by Awiakta	p. 335
Permissions and Credits	p. 336
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