Life in the City of Dirty Water: A Memoir of Healing

Life in the City of Dirty Water: A Memoir of HealingAn electrifying memoir that braids together the urgent issues of Indigenous rights and environmental policy, from a nationally and internationally recognized activist and survivor. There have been many Clayton Thomas Mullers: The child who played with toy planes as an escape from domestic and sexual abuse, enduring the intergenerational trauma of Canada's residential school system; the angry youngster who defended himself with fists and sharp wit

Members and descendants of the Sisseton Wahpeton Dakota Oyate

From Helen Hunt Jackson to Angie Debo

And in a dramatic photo spread

We know that nursery rhymes are some of the first things that are read to children

"we truly become one song and one drum beating together in a common purpose—and we are on the path to being healed

it was an eye-opening experience

The story of Native peoples' resistance to environmental injustice and land incursions

and on the tundra in Nunavut

kaleidoscopic

dedicated language warriors are powering an upswell

With little more to guide her than a passion for the thriving punk scene of the Pacific Northwest and a desire to live up to the responsibility of being the namesake of her beloved great-grandmother--a linguist who helped preserve her Indigenous language of Lushootseed--Sasha throws herself headlong into the world

Flutes of Fire is an essential book for anyone who cares about the Indigenous languages of California and their flourishing for many generations to come