Wisdom Lessons: Spirited Guidance from an Ojibwe Great-Grandmother

Wisdom Lessons: Spirited Guidance from an Ojibwe Great-GrandmotherWisdom Lessons is the culmination of a lifetime steeped in indigenous spiritual traditions, as well as the proverbial school of hard knocks. At once plainspoken and lyrical, Grandmother Mary offers invaluable lessons for anyone interested in living in alignment with their higher self. Praise for Mary Lyons and Wisdom Lessons: "Mary Lyons carries knowledge with a genuine smile, providing healing and love." Paula Looking Horse, Sioux elder and co

it often provokes the feeling that

offers a captivating glimpse into the daily life of the nineteenth-century Sioux

You've heard the hit song Come and Get Your Love in the movie Guardians of the Galaxy

Kimmerer clearly and artfully explains the biology of mosses

Billy-Ray Belcourt

and that we can never take our liberties for granted

Patrisia Gonzales addresses "Red Medicine" as a system of healing that includes birthing practices

Miikwan is Anishinaabe

they influence the sometimes violent fate of those who have followed them

Editors Shannon Gibney and Kao Kalia Yang acknowledge "who we had been could not have prepared us for who we would become in the wake of these words

struck Nora Murphy forcefully

with inadequate shelter