Our Land Was a Forest: An Ainu Memoir by Mark Selden, Kayano Shigeru, Kayano Shigeru

Our Land Was a Forest: An Ainu Memoir

Mark Selden, Kayano Shigeru, Kayano Shigeru

191 pages first pub 1994 (editions)

nonfiction history memoir informative reflective slow-paced
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This book is a beautiful and moving personal account of the Ainu, the native inhabitants of Hokkaidō, Japan's northern island, whose land, economy, and culture have been absorbed and destroyed in recent centuries by advancing Japanese. Based on th...

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