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As a botanist and professor of plant ecology, Robin Wall Kimmerer has spent a career learning how to ask questions of nature using the tools of science. As a Potawatomi woman, she learned from elders, family, and history that the Potawatomi, as well as a majority of other cultures indigenous to this land, consider plants and animals to be our oldest teachers. In Braiding Sweetgrass, Kimmerer brings these two lenses of knowing together to reveal what...
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HighWater Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
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English
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"An engaging look at how the animals, people, and seasons within an ecosystem are intertwined. To the Gitxsan people of Northwestern British Columbia, the eagle is an integral part of the natural landscape. Together, they share the land and forests that the Skeena River runs through, as well as the sockeye salmon within it. Follow the eagle mother as she teaches her eaglets what they need to survive on their own. The Mothers of Xsan series uses striking...
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American studies now volume 5
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University of California Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
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English
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"From the 1960s to the present, activists, artists, and science fiction writers have imagined the consequences of climate change and its impacts on our future. Authors such as Octavia Butler and Leslie Marmon Silko, movie directors such as Bong Joon-Ho, and creators of digital media such as the makers of the Maori web series Anamata Future News have all envisioned future worlds in the wake of imminent environmental collapse, engaging audiences to...
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Harper San Francisco
Pub. Date
c2004
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English
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Wisdom through observation: lesson of eagle -- Find and preserve the medicine: lesson of bear -- Balance in all things: lesson of lion -- One among many: lesson of wolf -- Develop intuition: lesson of orca -- Seek truth: lesson of owl -- Strive for freedom: lesson of tiger -- Heat: lesson of cottonwood tree -- Thin: lesson of deer -- Gone: lesson of buffalo -- Too many: lesson of rat.
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Univ Of Oklahoma Press
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2009, 2002
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English
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This volume details the relationship of fire and the land in the United States, and the use of fire by Native Americans to alter the landscape, as well as taking advantage of naturally occurring fires. Native Americans regularly used fire to manage plant communities and associated animal species through varied and localized habitat burning dispelling the common myth that views Native Americans as naive, primitive people who had little impact on the...
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Fernwood Publishing
Pub. Date
[2020]
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English
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"Winona LaDuke is a leader in cultural-based sustainable development strategies, renewable energy, sustainable food systems and Indigenous rights. To Be a Water Protector, explores issues that have been central to her activism for many years -- sacred Mother Earth, our despoiling of Earth and the activism at Standing Rock and opposing Line 3. For this book, Winona discusses several elements of a New Green Economy and the lessons we can take from activists...
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Second Story Press
Pub. Date
2020.
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English
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"A board book about the importance of Nibi, which means water in Anishinaabemowin (Ojibwe), and our role to thank, respect, love, and protect it. Written from an Anishinaabe water protector's perspective, the book is in dual language--English and Anishinaabemowin. Babies and toddlers can follow Nibi as it rains and snows, splashes or rows, drips and sips."--
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As a leading researcher in the field of biology, Robin Wall Kimmerer understands the delicate state of our world. But as an active member of the Potawatomi nation, she senses and relates to the world through a way of knowing far older than any science. In Braiding Sweetgrass, she intertwines these two modes of awareness--the analytic and the emotional, the scientific and the cultural--to ultimately reveal a path toward healing the rift that grows...
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