"The purpose of ritual, ceremony, and prayer is to open ourselves to that power, to bring into our everyday, existence the knowledge and memory of that time, to reinvoke it and reparticipate in it. And the gate through which we enter the dream world, the world of time immemorial; the place of inception, conception, and perception, is language. For without language, there are no stories; there is no speaking and singing the world into existence."
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Janice Gould
1949 – 2019
Janice Gould (1949–2019) was a Koyangk'auwi (Konkow, Concow) Maidu writer and scholar.
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