ABSTRACT
For Cruikshank, the "connections with people are explored through ties of kinship; connections with land emphasise a sense of place. But kinship and landscape provide more than just a setting for an account, for they actually frame and shape a story". M. L. Silko writes: So long as the human consciousness remains within the hills, canyons, cliffs, and the plants, clouds, and sky, the term landscape, as it has entered the English language, is misleading. "A portion of territory the eye can comprehend in a single view" does not correctly describe the relationship between the human being and his or her surroundings. Human identity, imagination and storytelling were inextricably linked to the land, to Mother Earth, just as the strands of the spider's web radiate from the center of the web. In his work Dustin Brass makes visible the possibility that with time, the land became a place of resonance for the youth and their stories.
