Radical Hope: Ethics in the Face of Cultural Devastation indigenous language books Navajo writer Luci Tapahonso shares

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Radical Hope: Ethics in the Face of Cultural Devastation indigenous language books Navajo writer Luci Tapahonso sharesShortly before he died, Plenty Coups, the last great Chief of the Crow Nation, told his storyup to a certain point. When the buffalo went away the hearts of my people fell to the ground, he said, and they could not lift them up again. After this nothing happened. It is precisely this pointthat of a people faced with the end of their way of lifethat prompts the philosophical and ethical inquiry pursued in Radical Hope. In Jonathan Lears view, Plenty