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| //Alcheringa// is a collection of tribal poetry that is translated into English. Presenting this literature to a new and larger audience gives these texts another chance to be appreciated by readers. Given how indigenous literature has traditionally been shunned, destroyed, and scoffed at for years, this is a step toward the preservation of their poetics and the messages contained within them. | //Alcheringa// is a collection of tribal poetry that is translated into English. Presenting this literature to a new and larger audience gives these texts another chance to be appreciated by readers. Given how indigenous literature has traditionally been shunned, destroyed, and scoffed at for years, this is a step toward the preservation of tribal poetics and the messages contained within them. |
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| These collections have grown exponentially from 1970-1980, culminating in four volumes of tribal literature that have been preserved on paper and in digital form. Each volume focuses primarily on the messages shown in tribal poetry, definitions of potentially new and unfamiliar words and phrases, and unique styles of poetry that have been otherwise forgotten about and ignored in history at large. | These collections have grown exponentially from 1970-1980, culminating in four volumes of tribal literature that have been preserved on paper and in digital form. Each volume focuses primarily on the messages contained in tribal poetry, definitions of potentially new and unfamiliar words and phrases, and unique styles of poetry that have been otherwise forgotten about and ignored in history at large. |
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