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Sky Wolf's call : the gift of Indigenous knowledge / Eldon Yellowhorn & Kathy Lowinger.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Toronto ; Berkeley : Annick Press, [2022]Copyright date: ©2022Description: 120 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 25 cmContent type:
  • text
  • still image
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781773216300
  • 1773216309
  • 9781773216294
  • 1773216295
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Contents:
Sky Wolf's call : the gift of indigenous knowledge -- Water knowledge ways -- Fire and smoke knowledge -- Indigenous knowledge and food security -- Healing knowledge ways -- Sky knowledge -- Keeping the knowledge -- Sky Wolf's call.
Summary: "From healing to astronomy to our connection to the natural world, the lessons from Indigenous knowledge inform our learning and practices today. How do knowledge systems get passed down over generations? Through the knowledge inherited from their Elders and ancestors, Indigenous Peoples throughout North America have observed, practiced, experimented, and interacted with plants, animals, the sky, and the waters over millennia. Knowledge keepers have shared their wisdom with younger people through oral history, stories, ceremonies, and records that took many forms. In Sky Wolf's Call, award-winning author team of Eldon Yellowhorn and Kathy Lowinger reveal how Indigenous knowledge comes from centuries of practices, experiences, and ideas gathered by people who have a long history with the natural world. Indigenous knowledge is explored through the use of fire and water, the acquisition of food, the study of astronomy, and healing practices."-- Provided by publisher.
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Item type Home library Collection Call number Materials specified Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Children's Book Children's Book Dr. James Carlson Library Children's NonFiction 500.8997 Y43 Available 33111010980494
Children's Book Children's Book Main Library Children's NonFiction 500.8997 Y43 Available 33111010843106
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

From healing to astronomy to our connection to the natural world, the lessons from Indigenous knowledge inform our learning and practices today.

How do knowledge systems get passed down over generations? Through the knowledge inherited from their Elders and ancestors, Indigenous Peoples throughout North America have observed, practiced, experimented, and interacted with plants, animals, the sky, and the waters over millennia. Knowledge keepers have shared their wisdom with younger people through oral history, stories, ceremonies, and records that took many forms.

In Sky Wolf's Call, award-winning author team of Eldon Yellowhorn and Kathy Lowinger reveal how Indigenous knowledge comes from centuries of practices, experiences, and ideas gathered by people who have a long history with the natural world. Indigenous knowledge is explored through the use of fire and water, the acquisition of food, the study of astronomy, and healing practices.

*A Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection

Sky Wolf's call : the gift of indigenous knowledge -- Water knowledge ways -- Fire and smoke knowledge -- Indigenous knowledge and food security -- Healing knowledge ways -- Sky knowledge -- Keeping the knowledge -- Sky Wolf's call.

"From healing to astronomy to our connection to the natural world, the lessons from Indigenous knowledge inform our learning and practices today. How do knowledge systems get passed down over generations? Through the knowledge inherited from their Elders and ancestors, Indigenous Peoples throughout North America have observed, practiced, experimented, and interacted with plants, animals, the sky, and the waters over millennia. Knowledge keepers have shared their wisdom with younger people through oral history, stories, ceremonies, and records that took many forms. In Sky Wolf's Call, award-winning author team of Eldon Yellowhorn and Kathy Lowinger reveal how Indigenous knowledge comes from centuries of practices, experiences, and ideas gathered by people who have a long history with the natural world. Indigenous knowledge is explored through the use of fire and water, the acquisition of food, the study of astronomy, and healing practices."-- Provided by publisher.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 111-113) and index.

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