Some end of year reading and listening for big and little people in our Black Lives Matter Link Library.
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In this podcast botanist and member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation, Robin Wall Kimmerer joins science’s ability to “polish the art of seeing” with her personal, civilizational lineage of listening to plant life and heeding the languages of the natural world. She’s an expert in moss — a bryologist — who describes mosses as the “coral reefs of the forest.” And she says that as our knowledge about plant life unfolds, human vocabulary and imaginations must adapt.
“In the English language, a human alone has distinction while all other living beings are lumped with the nonliving “its.” ”
In this essay published in Orion magazine, Robin Wall Kimmerer explores pronouns from the Potawatomi language that affirm our kinship with the natural world.
When We Say Black Lives Matter
“Little one, when we say Black Lives Matter,
we’re saying black people are wonderful-strong.
That we deserve to be treated with basic respect,
and that history’s done us wrong.“
In When We Say Black Lives Matter, a black child’s parents explain what the term Black Lives Matter means to them: in protest and song, in joy and in sorrow.
A vital and timely picture book from the prize-winning and bestselling Australian author Maxine Beneba Clarke
Cooee Mittigar: A story on Darug Songlines
“Cooee mittigar. Tread softly on our lands.
Know that this dreaming was here. Is still here.
Will be forever.”
Cooee Mittigar, meaning Come Here Friend, is an invitation to yana (walk), on Darug Country. In this stunning picture book, shortlisted for multiple awards, Darug creators Jasmine Seymour and Leanne Mulgo Watson tell a story on Darug Songlines, introducing children and adults-alike to Darug Nura (Country) and language.