Indigenous Environmentalism: Honoring Our Relationships and Responsibilities with Nature

Indigenous Environmentalism: Honoring Our Relationships and Responsibilities with NatureFor thousands of years, Native American peoples have had a deep connection to the land they live on. From cultural burning setting small controlled fires to improve a habitat to only taking what was needed, Indigenous peoples protected and respected the land. When Europeans began colonizing the land that would become the United States, Native nations were forced from their homes. Later, the US government and non Native companies built dams that

Despite the central role blood quantum played in political formations of American Indian identity in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries

reminding us of the part we have to play in this amazing creation

For Native peoples the earth was special

the Idle No More movement

the depletion of natural resources

In this moving middle-grade novel drawing upon Umpqua author Charlene Willing McManis's own tribal history

casting unsparing light on the men who brutalized her and recentering Sacajewea as the arbiter of her own history

As an adult finding her way back to her origins

the first poets of this country

Adapted for young adults by Monique Gray Smith

Born to Cree parents and raised by a Métis father and Mi'kmaw-British mother

the very best prescription for us in wounded times" (Sandra Cisneros