Our Land Was a Forest: An Ainu Memoir by Mikiso Hane, Kayano Shigeru, Lili Selden, Kyoko Selden

Our Land Was a Forest: An Ainu Memoir

Mikiso Hane, Kayano Shigeru, Lili Selden, Kyoko Selden

172 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 Hokkaido, 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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