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A dominant, human-centered worldview has brought us to the brink of social, ecological, and climate collapse. Braiding poetic storytelling, deep cultural and climate justice analyses, and knowledge of Earth-centered cultures, The Story is in Our Bones opens a portal to restoration and justice beyond the end of a world.
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Author's Note
Foreword
By Casey Camp-Horinek, Ponca Nation, Environmental Ambassador and Hereditary Drum Keeper of the Ponca Tribe
Part I: Entering the Terrain
Chapter 1: Worldviews Are a Portal
Chapter 2: The Story Is in Our Bones: Origin Stories to Remake our World
Chapter 3: Ancient Trees and Ancestral Warnings
Chapter 4: A Visionary Declaration from the Amazon
Part II: Dismantling Patriarchy, Racism, and the Myth of Whiteness: Ancient Mother and Women Rising
Chapter 5: She Rises
Chapter 6: Tracing and Healing the Assault on Women
Chapter 7: Listening to Black and Indigenous Women, and Debunking the Myth of Whiteness
Chapter 8: Worldviews of Our Ancestral Lineages
Part III: Reciprocity: A Thousandfold Act of Responsibility and Love
Chapter 9: Offering and Tending to the Land
Chapter 10: Composting the Cultural Toxins of Colonization and Capitalism
Chapter 11: Reciprocal Relationships with People and Land
Part IV: Living in Balance with the Natural Laws of the Earth
Chapter 12: Rights of Nature: A Systemic Solution
Part V: The Land Is Speaking: Language, Memory, and a Storied Living Landscape
Chapter 13: Worldviews Conjured by Words
Chapter 14: Songlines Through the Landscape
Chapter 15: Building a Relationship with the Storied Land
Reader's Guide and Resources
Acknowledgments
Credits
Endnotes
Index
About the Author
About the Publisher
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Osprey Orielle Lake is the founder and executive director of the Women's Earth and Climate Action Network (WECAN), where she works internationally with grassroots, BIPOC and Indigenous leaders, policymakers, and diverse coalitions to build climate justice, resilient communities, and a just transition to a decentralized, democratized clean-energy future. She sits on the executive committee for the Global Alliance for the Rights of Nature and on the steering committee for the Fossil Free Non-Proliferation Treaty. Osprey's writing about climate justice, relationships with nature, women in leadership, and other topics has been featured in The Guardian, Common Dreams, Earth Island Journal, The Ecologist, and many other publications. She is the author of the award-winning book Uprisings for the Earth: Reconnecting Culture with Nature. Osprey holds an MA in Culture and Environmental Studies from Holy Names University in Oakland and lives in the San Francisco Bay Area on Coast Miwok lands.
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A dominant, human-centered worldview has brought us to the brink of social, ecological, and climate collapse. Braiding poetic storytelling, deep cultural and climate justice analyses, and knowledge of Earth-centered cultures, The Story is in Our Bones opens a portal to restoration and justice beyond the end of a world.
