That is who I was born and how I have lived

author of Braiding Sweetgrass

They are new and dynamic bagijiganan

which has for too long been dismissed as archaic folk knowledge from old oral cultures of interest only to academics and fetishists

Indian Herbalogy of North America—identifies and describes the uses for 125 medicinal herbs

Sanaaq: An Inuit Novel governance That is who I wasSanaaq is the intimate story of an Inuit family negotiating the changes brought into their community by the coming of the "qallunaat," the white people, in the mid nineteenth century. Sanaaq, a strong and outspoken young widow, and her daughter, Qumac, hunt seal, repair their kayak, and gather mussels under blue sea ice before the tide comes in. Theirs is a semi nomadic life on the edge of the ice where marriages are made and unmade, children are