Wendy Rose
Wendy Rose
Wendy Roseis a Hopi/Miwok writer. Having grown up in an environment which placed little emphasis on her Native American background, much of her verse deals with her search for her personal identity as a Native American. She is also an anthropologist, artist, and social scientist...
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We know people are going to continue to live right on the coast. We know they are going to rebuild in many of the places that were hardest hit by the recent hurricanes, although we would strongly urge people to rethink that.
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Every location in the country is exposed to one disaster or another.
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If they are determined to live in those areas, we ask that they build in consideration of what the standards should be. Look at how many homes in wildfire-prone areas have wooden siding? Let's just use some common sense.
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Basically from Texas all along the bottom and the way up through New England could be new market areas for the industry.
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The majority of water losses are preventable. Keeping an eye on things around the house is an easy way to make sure your funds aren't drained by repairs.
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[The] Hopi earth does contain my roots and I am, indeed, from that land. Because the roots are there, I will find them. But when I find them, [my father] said, I must rebuild myself as a Hopi. I am not merely a conduit, but a participant. I am not a victim, but a woman.
I go through the motions of living in society
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Maurice Kenny stands at the forefront of his generation. Few writers of any ethnicity are destined to be remembered in the mainstream of literary history; I believe that Kenny's contributions as a poet are among those few. He writes from the center, as our Elders would say.