Mother Earth: An American Story

by Sam D. Gill

Book Overview

"The earth is my mother, and on her bosom I shall repose." Attributed to Tecumseh in the early 1800s, this statement is frequently cited to uphold the view, long and widely proclaimed in scholarly and popular literature, that Mother Earth is an ancient and central Native American figure. In this radical and comprehensive rethinking, Sam D. Gill traces the evolution of female earth imagery in North America from the sixteenth century to the present...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226293718
• ISBN13: 9780226293714
• Release Date: August 1987
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 196 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.