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"Place-meant".(land and meaning of home for Native Americans)
From: The American Indian Quarterly
Date: 20010101
Author:Watkins, Joe
In L. Frank Baum's The Wizard of Oz, Dorothy was able to return to Kansas by clicking the heels of her enchanted ruby slippers together three times and saying "There's no place like home." Conversely, Thomas Wolfe, in Look Homeward, Angel, tells us "You can never go home again." Whose observation is more correct? Now, having been to Kansas, I would tend to question why Dorothy, if she actually could, would want to go home again. But perhaps because it's not my home, I don't do Kansas justice. What is there about the concept of place and the physical environment around us that ...
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