Our Knowledge Is Not Primitive: Decolonizing Botanical Anishinaabe Teachings

Our Knowledge Is Not Primitive: Decolonizing Botanical Anishinaabe Teachings"This book is several things at once: a primer on truth, an innovative Anishinabe English language text, a grand discussion of what has been already written about Anishinabe use of plants, and a delightful act of love. Decolonized knowledge of the world allows a person access to the entire range of human experience of nature from use to song to dream to dance. This work is eye opening and joyous. And it is one of my favorite books of the year." Louise

Paul Windsor

Pulitzer Prize finalist The Plague of Doves

including the playful yet sometimes disturbing trickster Raven

and humiliating

This is their third book of teachings

they seek refuge in the butcher shop of their aunt Fritzie and her husband

“Erdrich’s direct narrative voice brings readers right into Makoons’ world

researchers

and hazelnut-maple bites

From the unbearable cruelty of the institutions that systematically unraveled Native communities at the turn of the century

John Trudell

and so unceremoniously