Sign-In
Cart
Mother Earth Is Our Elder: A Northern Indigenous Path Toward Sustainable Living
Hardcover
General Alternative HealthIndigenous StudiesSelf-Help
Publisher Price: $32.00
ISBN13: 9780063397224
Publisher: HarperOne
Published: Apr 14 2026
Pages: 384
Weight: 0.90
Height: 1.26 Width: 6.37 Depth: 9.19
Language: English
***Instant Globe and Mail Bestseller***
Indigenous solutions we can all apply today to make our lives more sustainable and engage with earth and community from award-winning Dene activist and writer Katlia.
The Dene in Canada's North West territories have lived alongside nature for many generations. From battling environmental racism on the front lines of historical environmental protests, to innovating sustainable resources, to living a balanced life through effective individual and collective governance, the Dene have long protected Mother Earth from destruction through their intricate knowledge systems, natural laws, and age-old principles, which are shared here for the first time thank to the contributions of tribal elders.
This is ancient information, but it's new to those outside the Dene community, and Katlia's voice channels our collective energy toward surprisingly simple scalable solutions such as:
- sustainable, ethical food sources as a path toward food sovereignty
- intermittent renewables and innovative alternatives to heat and power homes
- housing systems incorporating green technologies into cultural ways of knowing that include living off grid
- cultural burning to mitigate out of control wildfires
Adhering proudly to these responsibilities and values, Katlia (pronounced cat-lee-ah) writes a Dene manifesto fit to address the state of emergency we're in. Informed by Katlia's decades-long award-winning work and advocacy as a writer and activist, and her life experiences as a Dene woman from the north, this book achieves global relevance by focusing on the local.
With evidence of how this all works for the Dene people, we see how it might work for us as well. This generous, pragmatic, and hopeful book shows us how to find coexistence with Mother Earth and embrace the wisdom of our local Indigenous communities.
Mother Earth Is Our Elder features 10 original black-and-white photographs.
Also in
Indigenous Studies
The Return of Collective Intelligence: Ancient Wisdom for a World Out of Balance
Dyer, Dery
Paperback
The Cherokee War of 1776: Native Destruction at the Dawn of American Independence
Kokomoor, Kevin
Hardcover
Fresh Banana Leaves: Healing Indigenous Landscapes Through Indigenous Science
Hernandez, Jessica
Paperback
An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States (10th Anniversary Edition)
Dunbar-Ortiz, Roxanne
Hardcover
What the Ancestors Say: One Journalist's Intimate Investigation Into Indian Boarding Schools
Nadeau, Sierra Biidaaban
Hardcover
Healing the Land Teaches Us Who We Are: How Indigenous Cultural Resistance Can Restore the Earth, Recover Community, and Create Sustainable Futures
Carrillo Martinet, Maceo
Paperback
Growing Papaya Trees: Nurturing Indigenous Roots During Climate Displacement
Hernandez, Jessica
Paperback
Our Ancestors Want Us to Be Mushrooms: Wisdom for Living in Balance with the Planet and Each Other
Murphy Barney, Madison
Paperback
Who Gets to Be Indian?: Ethnic Fraud, Disenrollment, and Other Difficult Conversations about Native American Identity
Gilio-Whitaker, Dina
Hardcover
The Maze of History: Komal Hok, O'Odham Teachings, and an Earth-Based Sense of Time
Martínez, David
Paperback
All the Real Indians Died Off: And 20 Other Myths about Native Americans
Dunbar-Ortiz, Roxanne
Gilio-Whitaker, Dina
Paperback
Healing the Soul Wound: Trauma-Informed Counseling for Indigenous Communities
Duran, Eduardo
Paperback
Elements of Indigenous Style: A Guide for Writing by and about Indigenous Peoples
Younging, Gregory
Paperback
Cleansing Rites of Curanderismo: Limpias Espirituales of Ancient Mesoamerican Shamans
Buenaflor, Erika
Paperback
Medicine Wheel for the Planet: A Journey Toward Personal and Ecological Healing
Grenz, Jennifer
Hardcover
Reclaiming Two-Spirits: Sexuality, Spiritual Renewal & Sovereignty in Native America
Smithers, Gregory
Paperback
How Settlers Get Away with Murder: The Killing of Indigenous Women and Two-Spirit People in the Americas
Black, Liza
Hardcover
Anthropological Theory for the Twenty-First Century: A Critical Approach
Perley, Bernard C.
Gomberg-Muñoz, Ruth
Bolles, A. Lynn
Paperback
Living Indigenous Feminism: Stories of Contemporary Native American Women
Johnston, Carolyn Ross
Baker, Terri McKinney
Paperback
Becoming a Good Relative: Calling White Settlers Toward Truth, Healing, and Repair
Giovale, Hilary
Paperback
Hozho: A Navajo Nation Medicine Woman's Exploration of the Four Bodies of Existence for Balance and Self-Reclamation
Crow, Granddaughter
Paperback
Journey to Eloheh: How Indigenous Values Lead Us to Harmony and Well-Being
Woodley, Randy
Woodley, Edith
Hardcover
The Knowing: How the Oppression of Indigenous Peoples Continues to Echo Today
Talaga, Tanya
Hardcover
Our Home and Treaty Land: Revised and Expanded Edition
Anderson, Matthew R.
Aldred, Raymond C.
Paperback
Plant Teachings from My Auntie: Gathering Coast Salish Plants for Medicine, Textiles, Nourishment, and Ceremony
Manson, Geraldine
Turner, Nancy J.
Paperback
The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World (Large Print Edition)
Kimmerer, Robin Wall
Hardcover
Mother Earth Plants for Health & Beauty: Indigenous Plants, Traditions, and Recipes
Armstrong, Carrie
Hardcover
Indigenous Methodologies: Characteristics, Conversations, and Contexts, Second Edition
Kovach, Margaret
Paperback
Love and Loss After Wounded Knee: A Biography of an Extraordinary Interracial Marriage
Dobrow, Julie
Hardcover
My Head for a Tree: The Extraordinary Story of the Bishnoi, Guardians of Nature
Goodman, Martin
Hardcover
Agents of Survivance: Indigenous Women Teachers in the Boarding School Era
Gere, Anne Ruggles
Hardcover
Veneration Rites of Curanderismo: Invoking the Sacred Energy of Our Ancestors
Buenaflor, Erika
Paperback
The Genocide Continues: Population Control and the Sterilization of Indigenous Women
Stote, Karen
Paperback
Resurgence: Engaging with Indigenous Narratives and Cultural Expressions in and Beyond the Classroom
Adams, Kc
Paperback
Indigenomicon: American Indians, Video Games, and the Structures of Dispossession
Byrd, Jodi A.
Paperback
Curanderismo Soul Retrieval: Ancient Shamanic Wisdom to Restore the Sacred Energy of the Soul
Buenaflor, Erika
Paperback
Sagaytgawdi: Grounding Assessment in Indigenous Knowledges for Equity and Well-Being
Moore, Brooke
Chrona, Jo
Paperback
Animal Medicine: A Curanderismo Guide to Shapeshifting, Journeying, and Connecting with Animal Allies
Buenaflor, Erika
Paperback
Red Nation Rising: From Bordertown Violence to Native Liberation
Yazzie, Melanie
Nez Denetdale, Jennifer
Estes, Nick
Paperback
The Rise of Indigenous Economic Power: Deconstructing Indian ACT Economics
Hilton, Carol Anne
Paperback
The Knowing: How the Oppression of Indigenous Peoples Continues to Echo Today (Large Print Edition)
Talaga, Tanya
Hardcover
First Light: Kanaka 'Oiwi Resistance to Settler Science at Mauna a Wakea
Casumbal-Salazar, Iokepa
Paperback
The Rocks Will Echo Our Sorrow: The Forced Displacement of the Northern Sámi
Labba, Elin Anna
Hardcover
Unbroken: My Fight for Survival, Hope, and Justice for Indigenous Women and Girls
Sterritt, Angela
Paperback
52 Ways to Reconcile: How to Walk with Indigenous Peoples on the Path to Healing
Robertson, David A.
Hardcover
On Dismantling Settler Colonialism: An Insider's Perspective on Reconciliation with Indigenous Peoples
Olthuis, John
Olthuis, John A.
Hardcover
Shallow River of Tears: Canada's Stalled Paths to Reconciliation
Basso, Andrew R.
Perrella, Andrea M. L.
Paperback
Everyday Reconciliation: A Guide to Action and Change for All of Us
Miller, Elin Sandberg
Montour
Hardcover
On the Turtle's Back: Stories the Lenape Told Their Grandchildren
Townsend, Camilla
Michael, Nicky Kay
Paperback
Indigenous Rights in One Minute: What You Need to Know to Talk Reconciliation
McIvor, Bruce
Paperback
Valley of the Birdtail: An Indian Reserve, a White Town, and the Road to Reconciliation
Sniderman, Andrew Stobo
Sanderson, Douglas
Paperback
Nā Inoa Hōkū: Hawaiian and Pacific Star Names, Third Edition
Johnson, Rubellite Kawena
Mahelona, John Kaipo
Ruggles, Clive
Paperback
Plants and Animals in the Yoeme World: Ethnoecology of the Yaquis in Sonora and Arizona
Felger, Richard S.
Molina, Felipe S.
Hardcover
Urban Indigenous Assemblages: Qom Mobilities and the Remaking of White Buenos Aires
Vivaldi, Ana
Paperback
Indigenous Genres of the Human: Locating the Intersections of Indigeneity and Latinidad
Ríos, Gabriela Raquel
Paperback
A Short History of the Blockade: Giant Beavers, Diplomacy, and Regeneration in Nishnaabewin
Simpson, Leanne Betasamosake
Paperback
The Hidden Ancestral Identity of the American Negro: Why Black Lives Matter?
America-Harrison, Radine a.
Paperback
Tsqelmucwílc: The Kamloops Indian Residential School―resistance and a Reckoning
Haig-Brown, Celia
Paperback
Luschiim's Plants: Traditional Indigenous Foods, Materials and Medicines
Charlie, Luschiim Arvid
Paperback
Our Fire Survives the Storm: A Cherokee Literary History, Citizenship and Sovereignty Edition
Justice, Daniel Heath
Paperback
The Plight of Southeastern Native American Indian Tribes: Fighting Systemic Eracism
Creel, John Glenn
Paperback
Seeding Consciousness: Plant Medicine, Ancestral Wisdom, and Psychedelic Initiation
Eastman, Tricia
Paperback
To Remain an Indian: Lessons in Democracy from a Century of Native American Education
Lomawaima, K. Tsianina
McCarty, Teresa L.
Paperback
Restorying Your Story: Reclaiming Your Voice in the Face of Injustices of the Past
Gauthier, Michael
Paperback
The Dreaming Path: Indigenous Wisdom, Meditations, and Exercises to Live Our Best Stories
Callaghan, Paul
Gordon, Uncle Paul
Paperback
Indigenous Inhumanities: California Indian Studies After the Apocalypse
Minch-de Leon, Mark
Paperback
Insurgent Veins: Indigenismo, Indigenous Literatures, and Decolonial Cracks
Díaz-Zanelli, José Carlos
Paperback
Performance and Protest: Inuit of Labrador and the World's Columbian Exposition, 1893
Markham, Nigel
Paperback
Illegality in the Heartland: Latinidad, Indigeneity, and Immigration Policies During Times of Hate
Gómez Cervantes, Andrea
Paperback
By Strength, We Are Still Here: Indigenous Peoples and Indian Residential Schooling in Inuvik, Northwest Territories
Fraser, Crystal Gail
Paperback
Ice Geographies: The Colonial Politics of Race and Indigeneity in the Arctic
Smith, Jen Rose
Paperback
Reclaiming Two-Spirits: Sexuality, Spiritual Renewal & Sovereignty in Native America
Smithers, Gregory
Hardcover
The City of Our Dreaming: The Alchemy Lecture
McEwen, V. Mitch
Leandro Pereira, Gabriela
Khalili, Laleh
Paperback
What Side Are You On?: A Tohono O'Odham Life Across Borders
Lucero, José Antonio
Wilson, Michael Steven
Paperback
Sovereign Bodies, Sovereign Spaces: Urban Indigenous Health Activism in the United States and Australia
John, Maria
Paperback
In Defense of Sovereignty: Protecting the Oneida Nation's Inherent Right to Self-Determination
Webster, Rebecca M.
Paperback
Transilient Acts and Resilient Villages: Pueblo Community Persistence in the Northern Rio Grande
Adler, Michael A.
Hardcover