Meaning of Turtle Island | Babel Free

Definitions

1. North America.
2. The Earth.

Equivalents

Examples

“If dispossession has defined recent centuries of Turtle Island history, then this fact has been well accommodated in official U.S. discourse.”

“Native peoples see the continent as Turtle Island (a concept brought to a wider audience by ecospirit poetry of Gary Snyder). The continental Turtle can be seen in two ways, with its head either to the north or south.”

“Tears had flowed with the tide of settlers all the way to the western shores of Turtle Island. When Chief Seattle signed the 1855 Port Elliott Treaty, surrendering his lands to the Washington governor,[…]”

“For me, Cherokee Stories of the Turtle Island Liars' Club represents a coming together of the concerns of my published work as a scholar and my personal journey home to learn from my elders.”

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