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A powerful, intimate collection of conversations with Indigenous Americans on the climate crisis and the Earth's future Although for a great many people, the human impact on the Earth--countless species becoming extinct, pandemics claiming millions of lives, and climate crisis causing worldwide social and environmental upheaval--was not apparent until recently, this is not the case for all people or cultures. For the Indigenous people of the world, radical alteration of the planet, and of life itself, is a story that is many generations long. They have had to adapt, to persevere, and to be courageous and resourceful in the face of genocide and destruction--and their experience has given them a unique understanding of civilizational devastation. An innovative work of research and reportage, We Are the Middle of Forever places Indigenous voices at the center of conversations about today's environmental crisis. The book draws on interviews with people from different North American Indigenous cultures and communities, generations, and geographic regions who share their knowledge and experience, their questions, their observations, and their dreams of maintaining the best relationship possible to all of life. A welcome antidote to the despair arising from the climate crisis, We Are the Middle of Forever brings to the forefront the perspectives of those who have long been attuned to climate change and will be an indispensable aid to those looking for new and different ideas and responses to the challenges we face.

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Contributors to this dynamic collection are rooted in ancient cultural philosophies that radically challenge non-Native ideas about climate change...Readers will be impressed by both the depth and breadth of the interviews as well as the contributors' evocative, vivid storytelling and palpable emotion. -- Kirkus Reviews (starred review) These testimonies are exact, explicit, essential...When we finish reading and incorporating each word, we will know how to live. The path we are each called to walk will be clear. -- Deena Metzger, author of A Rain of Night Birds This book proves what many already know to be true, but which many more need to hear: Indigenous people are the heroes of the climate justice movement. -- Melanie Yazzie, co-author of The Red Deal This timely compilation of interviews shines a spotlight on the environmental knowledge of twenty individuals who belong to Native Nations...a wide variety of indigenous academics, artists, and community leaders...Insights like these, and dozens more, deserve deep attention and will hopefully spur readers into action to save the planet and themselves. -- Booklist (starred review)

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Dahr Jamail is the author of Beyond the Green Zone: Dispatches from an Unembedded Journalist in Occupied Iraq and The End of Ice: Bearing Witness and Finding Meaning in the Path of Climate Disruption (The New Press). He has won the Martha Gellhorn Prize for Journalism and the Izzy Award. He lives in Washington State. Dahr Jamail is the author of Beyond the Green Zone: Dispatches from an Unembedded Journalist in Occupied Iraq and The End of Ice: Bearing Witness and Finding Meaning in the Path of Climate Disruption (The New Press). He has won the Martha Gellhorn Prize for Journalism and the Izzy Award. He lives in Washington State. Stan Rushworth is a teacher of Native American literature and the author of Sam Woods: American Healing, Going to Water: The Journal of Beginning Rain, and Diaspora's Children. He lives in Northern California. Stan Rushworth is a teacher of Native American literature and the author of Sam Woods: American Healing, Going to Water: The Journal of Beginning Rain, and Diaspora's Children. He lives in Northern California. Shaun Taylor-Corbett is an actor, singer, and writer. A graduate of the University of Delaware, he has television and Broadway credits, including the role of Sonny on Broadway in In the Heights. He also has off-Broadway credits including In the Heights and Altar Boyz.

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