Abstract
The world of Indigenous ecological reality has a spatial and temporal structure. The need for a favorable natural environment, sufficient natural resources’ quantity and quality, as well as env ironmental security has been permanently present in autochtonous existence. Researchers of North American and Siberian indigenous peoples’ ecological identity agree that of the two criteria, spatial structure plays more important role than temporal. The indigenous peoples’ spatial identity is linked to their deep conviction that everything in the world “stops” periodically, so if you pray in the right locality, where higher powers are most likely to stop at that very moment, prayer would be heard. Thus the feeling of attachment to ethnic homeland is crucial in the process of creating an ethnic niche. Most of the Indigenous people believe that their nations were created at the territory they live now, so this locus is the center of the universe for them. The past and the future are understood by the natives at the level of physical perceptible sound, visual, tactile and sensory sensations, thus the concept of the sacred landscape is formed, and each nation has its own notion of it. Indigenous writers sometimes shift temporal-spatial layers, superimposing chronotopic planes, suspending astronomical time, thus destroying the boundaries of the real world and at the same time creating fascinating spaces that are an important part of the indigenous spatial identity. Thus, spatiality functions in fictional texts as a stylistic device designed to express the opposition of different worlds.
Highlights
Ecologic and ethnic problems are one of the most painful issues of the modern world, this phenomenon has become a reaction to the spiritual culture unification in the context of globalization
The most different layers are whimsically combined in human: Asia and Europe, East and West, Christianity and Paganism, regional and federal, province and capital, folk and classical, Antiquity, the Middle Ages, modern times technocracy and patriarchy .A sense of unity with a particular territory is an important theme in the literary tradition of the American and Canadian Indians and Indigenous peoples of Siberia : The Way to the Rainy Mountain by N
The subject specificity of the research determines the methodological basis, which is grounded upon the spatial identity of the Siberian and North American literary works
Summary
Ecologic and ethnic problems are one of the most painful issues of the modern world, this phenomenon has become a reaction to the spiritual culture unification in the context of globalization. Vine Deloria Jr. proposes the term "bioregional worldview" [4] to describe the American Indians and the Indigenous peoples’ of Siberia worldview. This term is based on the belonging to a specific space, land and its landscape. The most different layers are whimsically combined in human: Asia and Europe, East and West, Christianity and Paganism, regional and federal, province and capital, folk and classical, Antiquity, the Middle Ages, modern times technocracy and patriarchy .A sense of unity with a particular territory is an important theme in the literary tradition of the American and Canadian Indians and Indigenous peoples of Siberia : The Way to the Rainy Mountain by N. Scott Momaday, Pushing the Bear by Diane Glance, I Listen to the Earth, Khanty, or the Star of the Morning Dawn by Eremej Ajpin, Song of the Nivkhs by Vladimir Sangi
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