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Title What kind of ancestor do you want to be? / edited by John Hausdoerffer, Brooke Parry Hecht, Melissa K. Nelson, Katherine Kassouf Cummings
Published Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [2021]
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Description 1 online resource (248 pages) : 3 halftones
Contents 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes In English
Online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 21. Jun 2021)
Subject Indians of North America -- Social life and customs.
Traditional ecological knowledge.
NATURE / General.
Indians of North America -- Social life and customs
Traditional ecological knowledge
Form Electronic book
Author Abeyta, Aaron A., contributor.
Bayens, Leah, contributor.
Bray, Kaylena, contributor.
Calvert, Brian, contributor.
Coleman, Taiyon (Taiyon Jeanette), contributor.
Cummings, Katherine Kassouf, editor.
Dean Moore, Kathleen, contributor.
Forbes, Peter, contributor.
Gibney, Shannon, contributor.
Guttierez, Oscar, contributor.
Hausdoerffer, John, contributor.
Hausdoerffer, John, editor.
Hecht, Brooke Parry, contributor.
Hecht, Brooke Parry, editor.
Herron, Elizabeth Carothers, contributor.
Hogan, Linda, contributor.
Johnson, Princess Daazhraii, contributor.
Johnston, Lyla June, contributor.
Kakugawa, Frances H., contributor.
Kassouf Cummings, Katherine, contributor.
LaDuke, Winona, contributor.
Leora Gansworth, Kristi, contributor.
Loeffler, Jack, contributor.
Lunsford, Lindsey, contributor.
Lutz Warren, Julianne, contributor.
May, Jamaal, contributor.
McLeod, Christopher, contributor.
Meine, Curt, contributor.
Nelson, Melissa K., contributor.
Nelson, Melissa K., editor.
Prentiss, Sean, contributor.
Salmón, Enrique, contributor.
Sandilands, Catriona, contributor.
Spiller, Chellie, contributor.
Streit Krug, Aubrey, contributor.
Sweeney, Manea, contributor.
Van Horn, Gavin, contributor.
Wall Kimmerer, Robin, contributor.
White, Rowen, contributor.
Williams, Brooke, contributor.
Wise, Eryn, contributor.
Wolfgramm, Rachel, contributor.
LC no. 2020043082
ISBN 9780226777573
022677757X