6:30pm on a Tuesday.

Western definition of yoga has been significantly altered through a fitness-centered capitalist mindset.

Those who act outside of the prescribed rules threaten the functioning,

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she became enraged, and, speaking the Ineffable Name, flew away to the edge of the Red Sea to reside with demons”

lesser-known first woman: Lilith.

uncanny thing of all in Volver

“unheimlich” in that the incest and raping of young females is “something which ought to have been kept concealed but which nevertheless come to light

murdered because they’re trash rapist, incestual pests

women helping women

foreshadowing of Agustina’s death, which makes us wonder who’s going to follow her to death’s door.

“Women’s Troubles” Isn’t Restricted to Period Blood Anymore

He was going—my friend, my companion, from whom I had a right to expect so much—he was going—he would abandon me—he was gone!

Its contents polarized a nation.

“sentimental drivel” catered to the popular pallet,

I can’t pray for ‘em.” “It’s natur, Chloe, and natur ‘s strong,” said Tom, “but the Lord’s grace is stronger;

to hear that critter pray;

there’s a kind of selfishness to it.

All they do is run around and fight over the affections of a white man, and guess what? It costs them both their lives.

when she forgoes her entire belief system and religion to conform to Winkfield’s

dagger she was stabbed with

Princess Unca

Such is the case with many colonial encounter narratives. Like Rowlandson, when Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca’s expedition to America went wrong, he too painted himself to be an innocent victim.

it

I knew where his wife was

In my travels an Indian came to me and told me, if I were willing, he and his squaw would run away, and go home along with me.

But to return again to my going home, where we may see a remarkable change of providence. At first they were all against it, except my husband would come for me, but afterwards they assented to it, and seemed much to rejoice in it;

But now our perverse and evil carriages in the sight of the Lord, have so offended Him, that instead of turning His hand against them, the Lord feeds and nourishes them up to be a scourge to the whole land.

Thus the Lord made that pleasant refreshing, which another time would have been an abomination

Then I took it of the child, and eat it myself,

I would have tarried that night with her, but they that owned her would not suffer it

I thought of the English army, and hoped for their coming, and being taken by them, but that failed.

she threw a handful of ashes in mine eyes.

, for which she gave me a mess of broth, which was thickened with meal made of the bark of a tree, and to make it the better, she had put into it about a handful of peas, and a few roasted ground nuts.

Instead of going toward the Bay, which was that I desired

through the good providence of God, I had a comfortable lodging that night.

my master being gone, who seemed to me the best friend that I had of an Indian, both in cold and hunger, and quickly so it proved.

I thought I could as well have died as went back;

she found me sitting and reading in my Bible; she snatched it hastily out of my hand, and threw it out of doors.

master whether he would sell me to my husband. He answered me “Nux,”

knit a pair of stockings,

“No,” said he, “none will hurt you.”

as I thought

take notice of the strange providence of God in preserving the heathen

my mistress

only my knitting work

my wound

in play

I asked them whether they were earnest with God for deliverance.

There were now besides myself nine English captives in this place (all of them children, except one woman)

One of the Indians that came from Medfield fight, had brought some plunder, came to me, and asked me, if I would have a Bible, he had got one in his basket.

another in the wilderness

I went to see my daughter Mary

without any refreshing of one nature or other

King Philip,

they bade me carry it out to another wigwam

“your master

what with my own wound,

One of the Indians got up upon a horse, and they set me up behind him, with my poor sick babe in my lap.

still the Lord upheld me with His gracious and merciful spirit, and we were both alive to see the light of the next morning.

though I thought we should there have ended our days,

Then they set me upon a horse with my wounded child in my lap, and there being no furniture upon the horse’s back, as we were going down a steep hill we both fell over the horse’s head, at which they, like inhumane creatures, laughed,

Oh the roaring, and singing and dancing, and yelling of those black creatures in the night, which made the place a lively resemblance of hell.

About a mile we went that night, up upon a hill within sight of the town, where they intended to lodge.

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It cannot be under- stood, however, without major reference to its context and tribal symbol system. It may misleadingly appear, like much oral literature when transcribed, simple and straightforward; the non-Kiowa reader who approaches this work in isolation will, unfortunately, miss much of its depth and hence most if its real beauty and signifi- cance

He writes of a context with which he is familiar in an emic (insider's) sense, and thereby lends credibility to the notion that this book is truly a Native American's "statement," though certainly not the Native American point of view.

It is also necessary to know that a "staff," as mentioned in the story, functions as both a walking stick and a weapon; and that in the Tanaina symbol system, porcupines were supposed to be rather ponderous, dull-witted crea- tures, and beavers were thought to be energetic and industrious, but overly- spontaneous and erratic.

In the process, the individual beauties, insights, and styles of the particular litera- tures are ignored or become oversimplified, and the resulting amalgam is often a dreary and sparkless mediocrity.

Because the European perspective at least temporarily prevailed, it was entirely predictable that the lumping of all Native American cultures into the mythological "Indian" category persisted in the evolving Euro-American consciousness.

Early-arriving Euro- peans were hosted and fed and sheltered and studied; they were regarded as neither gods nor demons, and their appearance probably did not seem more than a mildly interesting event to the ordinary Native American citizen. To the European ventur- ing for the first time beyond the cocoon of cultural similitude, however, the "discov- ery" of "Indians" in the Americas was a major event indeed. Almost invariably the explorers' first reaction was one of irrational denial. Surely these quintessentially un-European creatures (no clothes, no crosses, etc.) could not be human. Perhaps they were a new species of ape; perhaps manifested devils . . . but certainly not souls!

Societal diversity was accepted, tolerated, and assumed, and each group took pride in its own distinctive features, including its own oral (literary) traditions.

thunder-bird did evil to all who fell under its shadow.

They, too, smoked the peace-pipe, and there was no longer war among the nations, but each dwelt by its own river and hunted only the deer, the beaver, the bear, or the bison.

the Moon-princess was journeying to see her brother, the Sun-prince,