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1 online resource (248 pages) : 3 halftones |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- Poem: Unsigned Letter to a Human in the 21st Century -- I . Embedded. Our ancestral responsibility is deeply rooted in a multigenerational relationship to place -- A. Poem: Great Granddaddy -- B. Essays -- Essay Ancestor of Fire -- Essay Grounded -- Essay My Home / It's Called the Darkest Wild -- C. Interview: Wendell Berry -- D. Poem: To the Children of the 21st Century -- II. Reckoning. Reckoning with ancestors causing and ancestors enduring historical trauma -- A. Poem: Forgiveness? -- B. Essays -- Essay. Sister's Stories -- Essay. Of Land and Legacy -- Essay. Cheddar Man -- Essay. Formidable -- C. Interview: Caleen Sisk -- D. Poem: Promises, Promises, Frances -- III. Healing Enhancing some ancestral cycles while breaking others -- A. Poem: To Future Kin -- B. Essays -- Essay. Moving with the Rhythm of Life -- Essay. (A Korowai) For When You Are Lost -- Essay. To Hope of Becoming Ancestors -- C. Interview: Camille T. Dungy and Crystal Williams -- D. Poem: Yes I Will -- IV. Interwoven. Our descendants will know the kind of ancestor we are by reading the lands and waters where we lived -- A. Poem: Alive in This Century -- B. Essays -- Essays. What Is Your Rice? -- Essays. Restoring Indigenous Mindfulness within the Commons of Human Consciousness -- Essays. Reading Records with Estella Leopold -- Essays. How to Be Better Ancestors -- C. Interview: Wes Jackson -- D. Poem: Omoiyare -- V. Earthly Other-than- human beings are our ancestors, too -- A. Poem: LEAF -- B. Essays -- Essay. The City Bleeds Out (Reflections on Lake Michigan) -- Essay. I Want the Earth to Know Me as a Friend -- Essay. The Apple Tree -- Essay. Humus -- Essay. Building Good Soil -- C. Interview: Vandana Shiva -- D. Poem: Your Inheritance -- VI. Seventh Fire -- A. Poem: Time Traveler -- B. Essays -- Essay. Seeds -- Essay. Onëö (Word for Corn in Seneca) -- Essay. Landing -- Essay. Regenerative -- Essay. Nourishing -- Essay. Light -- C. Interview: Ilarion Merculieff -- D. Poem: Lost in the Milky Way -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- About the Contributors -- Index |
Summary |
As we face an ever-more-fragmented world, What Kind of Ancestor Do You Want to Be? demands a return to the force of lineage--to spiritual, social, and ecological connections across time. It sparks a myriad of ageless-yet-urgent questions: How will I be remembered? What traditions do I want to continue? What cycles do I want to break? What new systems do I want to initiate for those yet-to-be-born? How do we endure? Published in association with the Center for Humans and Nature and interweaving essays, interviews, and poetry, this book brings together a thoughtful community of Indigenous and other voices--including Linda Hogan, Wendell Berry, Winona LaDuke, Vandana Shiva, Robin Kimmerer, and Wes Jackson--to explore what we want to give to our descendants. It is an offering to teachers who have come before and to those who will follow, a tool for healing our relationships with ourselves, with each other, and with our most powerful ancestors--the lands and waters that give and sustain all life |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
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In English |
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Online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 21. Jun 2021) |
Subject |
Indians of North America -- Social life and customs.
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Traditional ecological knowledge.
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NATURE / General.
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Indians of North America -- Social life and customs
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Traditional ecological knowledge
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Electronic book
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Author |
Abeyta, Aaron A., contributor.
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Bayens, Leah, contributor.
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Bray, Kaylena, contributor.
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Calvert, Brian, contributor.
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Coleman, Taiyon (Taiyon Jeanette), contributor.
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Cummings, Katherine Kassouf, editor.
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Dean Moore, Kathleen, contributor.
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Forbes, Peter, contributor.
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Gibney, Shannon, contributor.
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Guttierez, Oscar, contributor.
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Hausdoerffer, John, contributor.
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Hausdoerffer, John, editor.
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Hecht, Brooke Parry, contributor.
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Hecht, Brooke Parry, editor.
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Herron, Elizabeth Carothers, contributor.
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Hogan, Linda, contributor.
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Johnson, Princess Daazhraii, contributor.
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Johnston, Lyla June, contributor.
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Kakugawa, Frances H., contributor.
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Kassouf Cummings, Katherine, contributor.
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LaDuke, Winona, contributor.
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Leora Gansworth, Kristi, contributor.
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Loeffler, Jack, contributor.
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Lunsford, Lindsey, contributor.
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Lutz Warren, Julianne, contributor.
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May, Jamaal, contributor.
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McLeod, Christopher, contributor.
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Meine, Curt, contributor.
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Nelson, Melissa K., contributor.
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Nelson, Melissa K., editor.
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Prentiss, Sean, contributor.
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Salmón, Enrique, contributor.
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Sandilands, Catriona, contributor.
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Spiller, Chellie, contributor.
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Streit Krug, Aubrey, contributor.
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Sweeney, Manea, contributor.
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Van Horn, Gavin, contributor.
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Wall Kimmerer, Robin, contributor.
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White, Rowen, contributor.
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Williams, Brooke, contributor.
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Wise, Eryn, contributor.
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Wolfgramm, Rachel, contributor.
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LC no. |
2020043082 |
ISBN |
9780226777573 |
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022677757X |
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