Inspired by the landmark locus of courage and resistance at Standing Rock - the 2016 movement that magnetized people from more than five hundred indigenous nations and thousands of allies to take a stance against the Dakota Access Pipeline, against its concrete assault on a particular piece of land and against its general symbolism as ominous emblem of extractionism - the book invites young people to cast themselves as agents of change and stewards of the natural world. We ourselves are a story of water - biologically and culturally, in our most elemental materiality and our mightiest metaphors.įrom author Carole Lindstrom, member of the Turtle Mountain Band of Ojibwe, and artist Michaela Goade, member of the Central Council of the Tlingit a Haida Indian Tribes of Alaska, comes We Are Water Protectors ( public library) - a lyrical illustrated celebration of cultural heritage and the courage to stand up for nature. “Every story is a story of water,” Native American poet Natalie Diaz wrote in her stunning ode to her heritage, the language of the Earth, and the erasures of history.
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