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Quotes by Paula Gunn Allen

Hoop Dancer is a rendering of my understanding of the process by which one enters into timelessness -- that place where one is whole.

Paula Gunn Allen
Source: The Sacred Hoop: Recovering the Feminine in American Indian
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The hoop dancer dances within what encircles him, demonstrating how the people live in motion within the circling spirals of time and space. They are no more limited than water and sky. At green corn dance time, water and sky come together, in Indian time, to make rain.

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Tthe basis of Indian time is ceremonial, while the basis of time in the industrialized west is mechanical. 

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