Louise Erdrich tells a story of hearth and home

and racist motivations

which has for too long been dismissed as archaic folk knowledge from old oral cultures of interest only to academics and fetishists

winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award and the PEN/Jean Stein Book Award for Whereas

Original Instructions: Indigenous Teachings for a Sustainable Future sovereignty Louise Erdrich tells a storyFor millennia the worlds Indigenous Peoples have acted as guardians of the web of life for the following seven generations. They have successfully managed complex reciprocal relationships between diverse biological ecosystems and multitudinous human cultures. Awareness of Indigenous Knowledge is reemerging at the eleventh hour to help avert global ecological and social collapse. Indigenous cultural wisdom shows us how to live in peacewith the earth