Held by the Land: A Guide to Indigenous Plants for Wellness

Held by the Land: A Guide to Indigenous Plants for WellnessAuthor Leigh Joseph, an ethnobotanist and a member of the Squamish Nation, provides a beautifully illustrated essential introduction to Indigenous plant knowledge. Plants can be a great source of healing as well as nourishment, and the practice of growing and harvesting from trees, flowering herbs, and other plants is a powerful way to become more connected to the land. The Indigenous Peoples of North America have long traditions of using native

including what it means to them to be Lakota

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including Master of Puppets

1879-2009 is a narrative of American religion and how it intersected with land in the American West

“A brilliant cautionary tale…Reading it is like watching a wildfire whose flames are so mesmerizingly beautiful that it’s almost easy to ignore the deadly mess left behind

and cracking with a dark

Thirty-two-year-old Cedar Hawk Songmaker

A young Navajo man catches a ride home alongside a casket he's sure contains his dead grandfather

occupied a reservation about two miles south of Mankato on some of the state’s richest agricultural lands

Richard Hetzler

The only people still able to dream are North America's Indigenous people

while also serving as a testament to the resilience of the Dakota and other indigenous peoples who have lived in this region from time immemorial