Original Instructions: Indigenous Teachings for a Sustainable Future

Original Instructions: Indigenous Teachings for a Sustainable FutureFor millennia the worlds Indigenous Peoples have acted as guardians of the web of life for the following seven generations. They have successfully managed complex reciprocal relationships between diverse biological ecosystems and multitudinous human cultures. Awareness of Indigenous Knowledge is reemerging at the eleventh hour to help avert global ecological and social collapse. Indigenous cultural wisdom shows us how to live in peacewith the earth

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demonstrating how it persists in the contemporary context of neoliberal globalization

"A major collection by a writer who deserves an audience a big as the light she's throwing off

government's Indian policies—and sometimes the lack thereof—during the Civil War era

As the four seasons unfold—from Ziigwan (Spring) through Niibin and Dagwaagin to the silent

gorgeously written

Hiawatha was a strong and articulate Mohawk who was chosen to translate the Peacemaker’s message of unity for the five warring Iroquois nations during the 14th century

Claire Hartley and her fifteen-year-old son Aiden have nearly been torn apart by abusive boyfriends and an unjust world when a friend sends them to the Wolfchild ranch

Born in 1876 on the Yankton Sioux reservation in South Dakota

experimental works

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a tribute to the Alaskan landscape