The Birthing Tree

The Birthing TreeFrom the bestselling, award winning author of The Berry Pickers comes an unforgettable novel of family, legacy, and the secrets that bind and endanger us, following one woman as she confronts buried truths, memories of passionate young love, and the fragile future she alone must protect Born under the shadow of a birthing tree sacred to generations of Mi'kmaq women, Aliet Paul grows up outside a small Nova Scotia town with her fierce, loving

They did so against the backdrop of some of the central issues in American history

and the front lines of 1970's social activism

he identifies elements common to all the massacres

Newcomer Kealani Netane crafts a heartwarming story about finding your inner strength through the love and guidance of your family

In language that is prophetic

Twice to savor the emotional

the Wampanoag sachem (or chief)

they empower the reader with this message: "We are people who matter

one that begins with President Andrew Jackson's Indian Removal Act of 1830 and follows the Cherokee Trail of Tears

The Knowing is a seminal unravelling of the centuries-long oppression of Indigenous People that continues to reverberate in these communities today

including southern antebellum plantations and the nineteenth-century American West

when she blinks