The Grandfathers Speak: Native American Folk Tales of the Lenapé People

The Grandfathers Speak: Native American Folk Tales of the Lenapé PeopleBeautifully and authentically narrated, these stories tell among other things, of how Nanapush, the Grandfather of Beings and Men, created the earth upon the back of a great turtle; of how Mnkahas the Rainbow Crow, flew to the twelfth heaven to receive the gift of fire from the Creator; and of how the Lenap people came to live along the eastern seaboard of what is now known as the United States. The Grandfathers Speak is part of the Interlink

What will it take for us to recover a sustaining relation with the breathing earth

has seen the future

These poems recognize how our love of technology and how the extraction industries on indigenous lands that technology requires threaten our future and obscure the realities of indigenous peoples who know what it is to survive apocalypse

Miikwan and Dez are best friends

Land cession treaties were essentially the act of supplanting indigenous kinship relationships to the land with a property relationship

Even American military veterans

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and an extensive curriculum guide that includes objectives

and to study as we take our own Red Road journey to sobriety and Wellbriety in a spiritual

reproductive

the snakes were made of carved sticks or tree roots

and navigate the living culture of the Anishinaabe