{"product_id":"listening-once-again-to-our-great-mother","title":"Listening Once Again to Our Great Mother","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e“Elder Bill Jones breaks our hearts open with his deeply personal exposé of the ongoing trauma inflicted on Indigenous people and their beautiful ancestral forests.” — Suzanne Simard, author of \u003cem\u003eWhen the Forest Breathes\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Inspirational ... essential teaching for our time.” — Elizabeth May, O.C., M.P.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAn inspiring personal transformation through rediscovery of Indigenousself.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“I was lost before I was born”: the starting point of Pacheedaht Elder Bill Jones' lifelong journey of decolonization. “You were all Indigenous once”: the starting point for ending a world based on exploitation and greed.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn 2020–2021, settlers and First Nations people held what became Canada's largest act of civil disobedience — the Fairy Creek Blockades — in Port Renfrew, British Columbia. Duringthis fight to save some of the province's and the world's last remaining old-growth forest, the protesters experienced a collective transformation and were reacquainted with our Great Mother. As Elder Bill sat in a tent during a West Coast storm at the height of the Blockades, he experienced the final phase of his personal decolonization when he had a realization that has informed his life ever since.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWeaving together the stories of Elder Bill's personal lifeand those of his ancestors with Elder teachings, settler feminism, and the story of the Blockades, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eListening Once Again to Our Great Mother\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e shares wisdom that will inspire readers to reach their own self-awakening, now and for generations to come.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eElder Bill Jones \u003c\/strong\u003eis a ʔuuštaqyu and holder of First Nations traditions and ritual. He lives in Sooke, British Columbia.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eKaren Moe\u003c\/strong\u003e is an artist, feminist activist, and author of \u003cem\u003eVictim: A Feminist Manifesto from a Fierce Survivor\u003c\/em\u003e. She lives in Lantzville, British Columbia, and in Mexico City.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePhoto and description via Raincoast Distribution. Published by Dundurn Press.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Raincoast","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50862186987717,"sku":null,"price":27.99,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/6230\/9317\/files\/9781459757912_cfl.jpg?v=1793645397","url":"https:\/\/trainyardstore.com\/products\/listening-once-again-to-our-great-mother","provider":"Trainyard Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}