Water Is Life: The Ongoing Fight for Indigenous Water Rights

Water Is Life: The Ongoing Fight for Indigenous Water RightsFor many Indigenous peoples, water is sacred. Indigenous peoples have lived by important water sources throughout their histories. But in the 1800s, treaties with the US government and people settling in the West forced many Indigenous peoples to leave their homelands, to leave their water sources, and to move onto reservations. Indigenous peoples continue to stand for their communities in talks about water sources. From protesting dams and oil

Dez's grandmother has passed away

Drew Hayden Taylor weaves a pulse-pounding and propulsive narrative with an intricate cast of characters

creating new forms of shared experience and giving rise to new practices of Indigeneity

With striking illustrations and lyrical prose

As the novel spans time and multiple points of view

and how they fought to make it possible for him to wear his hair long

a young Ojibwe woman whose visions and grit help solve a brutal murder in this award-winning debut

rivalry and family change

and the smells of moose stew and wild peppermint tea

but not for the places and natural resources integral to ceremonies

historic documentation

While most historians concentrate on the Ojibwe relationship with whites to explain this story