Original Instructions: Indigenous Teachings for a Sustainable Future

Edited by Melissa K. Nelson
Original Instructions / Online Shop / Birchbark Books & Native Arts

Original Instructions: Indigenous Teachings for a Sustainable Future

Edited by Melissa K. Nelson
  • Paperback
  • Bear & Company (2008)
  • SKU: 9781591430797
Regular price $20.00
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For millennia the world’s 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 peace—with the earth and one another.

Original Instructions evokes the rich Indigenous storytelling tradition in this collection of presentations gathered from the annual Bioneers conference, a yearly meeting of some of the world’s most seminal environmentalists and social vision-aries. The book depicts how the world’s native leaders andscholars are safeguarding the Original Instructions, reminding us about gratitude, kinship, and a reverence for community and creation. Included are more than thirty contemporary Indigenous leaders—such as Chief Oren Lyons, John Mohawk, Winona LaDuke, and John Trudell. These beautiful, wise voices remind us where hope lies.

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