This Land

This LandThis land is your land now, but who did it belong to before? This engaging primer about native lands invites kids to trace history and explore their communities. Before my family lived in this house, a different family did, and before them, another family, and another before them. And before that, the family that lived here lived not in a house, but a wigwam. Who lived where you are before you got there? This Land teaches readers that American land,

Along the way

present—and future

From the fabric of these women’s lives

Held by the Land Deck includes 45 cards of indigenous plants and their properties and a 48-page booklet to guide you along the way

Simpson has gifted us with a field guide not to mere political resistance but to deep and holistic transformation

American artisanship and American authorship were entangled practices rather than distinct disciplines

Covered with Night—a phrase from Iroquois mourning practices—overturns persistent assumptions about "civilized" Europeans and "savage" Native Americans

As an adult finding her way back to her origins

or it is all a dream we want to wake up from with its characters

imperialism

the renewal of life--in myth and in art

juicy berries—to meet the needs of its natural community