This Place Is Who We Are: Stories of Indigenous Leadership, Resilience, and Connection to Homelands Menominee Kent Nerburn here draws on

Kent Nerburn here draws on his three decades living and working among Native peoples to offer stories and reflections that reveal what the ways of Native Americans have to teach us all — about giving

Dakota people are still struggling with the effects of this unimaginable loss

and her Ivy League education and career in the white male-dominated field of anthropology

and other notes and references

This Place Is Who We Are: Stories of Indigenous Leadership, Resilience, and Connection to Homelands Menominee Kent Nerburn here draws onThis Place Is Who We Are profiles Indigenous communities in central and northern coastal BC that are reconnecting to their lands and watersand growing and thriving through this reconnection. Indigenous peoples and cultures are integrally connected to the land. Well being in every sensephysical, social, environmental, economic, spiritual and culturaldepends on that relationship, which is based on a fundamental concept: when the land is well, so are the