An introduction to indigenous environmental studies from principles into action

Abstract

We hope you join us in saying nyá:wen kò:wa 1, chi miigwech, danke schön to give thanks first of all to this place-land-earth here in the Great Lakes basin-to the earth, water, air and spirit beings who support us. We also say nyá:wen kò:wa, chi miigwech, danke schön to give thanks to the Ancestors and all the human and other-than-human beings who fulfilled and continue to fulfil their responsibilities to Creation, the beings who share this place-land-earth. And we say niá:wen kò:wa, chi miigwech, danke schön to give thanks to the generations yet to come, the Coming Faces. Thinking of them is woven into our life's work.