What kind of ancestor do you want to be?

Book 2021

"What Kind of Ancestor Do You Want to Be? challenges our relationship to the environment and to each other, not only now but across generations. It is an important question for our time, when communities have become fragmented by a global consumer society, when our selves have become isolated in a competitive and technology-driven economy, and when our spiritual, social, and ecological impacts on human and other-than-human beings extend farther t...

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Indigenous peoples North America Social life and customs

Traditional ecological knowledge

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ISBN:

9780226777436

Description:

290 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index

Contents:

Introduction
Poem: Unsigned letter to a human in the 21st century
Embedded (Our ancestral responsibility is deeply rooted in a multigenerational relationship to place)
Reckoning (Reckoning with ancestors causing and ancestors enduring historical trauma)
Healing (Enhancing some ancestral cycles while breaking others)
Interwoven (Our descendants will know the kind of ancestor we are by reading the lands and waters where we lived)
Earthly (Other-than-human beings are our ancestors, too)
Seventh fire

LCCN:

2020043082

Control Number:

3094951

Other Authors:

Cummings, Katherine Kassouf, editor
Hausdoerffer, John, editor
Hecht, Brooke Parry, editor
Nelson, Melissa K., editor

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