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لماذا أنا وثنية (Why I Am a Pagan)
مقال قصير في «أتلانتيك مانثلي» يضع تجربة الداكوتا للروح العظيم في الطبيعة والقرابة في مقابل تهديدات واعظ مهتدٍ بنار الجحيم، ويعلن انحيازه للأولى؛ أُعيدت طباعته لاحقًا بعنوان «الروح العظيم».
مقدمة
The essay appeared in December 1902 in the Atlantic Monthly, two years after Zitkala-Ša’s autobiographical essays had made her known. It is short and personal: walking near her home, she feels the presence of the Great Spirit in the landscape, in the birds and in the kinship of all living beings; then a Dakota convert visits her and threatens her with the fires of hell. Against his Christianity of fear she sets a religion of kinship and peace and declares that if this is paganism, she is a pagan. Coming from a former teacher at Carlisle, the flagship of the assimilation schools, the essay was a provocation for its supporters. A revised version appeared in “American Indian Stories” (1921) under the title “The Great Spirit”. Today it is read as an early statement of Indigenous religious self-determination.
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- قصص هندية أمريكية (American Indian Stories)1921 · زيتكالا سا
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