We are water protectors
Water is the first medicine. It affects and connects us all... When a black snake threatens to destroy the Earth and poison her people's water, one young water protector takes a stand to defend Earth's most sacred resource. Inspired by the many indigenous-led movements across North America, this bold and lyrical picture book issues an urgent rallying cry to safeguard the Earth's water from harm and corruption.
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Water conservation > Juvenile fiction. |
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Picture books. Fiction. |
- ISBN: 9781250203557
- Physical Description 1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 26 cm
- Edition First edition.
- Publisher [Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], 2020.
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General Note: | NFPL Indigenous Collection. |
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We Are Water Protectors
Water is the first medicine.It affects and connects us all.Water is sacred. My people talk of a black snake that will destroy the land, Spoil the water, wreck everything in its path.They foretold that it wouldn't come for many, many years.Now the black snake is here.Told from the perspective of a Native American child, this bold and lyrical picture book written by Ojibwe/Métis author Carole Lindstrom and illustrated by Tlingit artist Michaela Goade is a powerful call to action to defend Earth's natural resources--inspired by the Dakota Access Pipeline protests and similar movements led by Indigenous tribes all across North America.