Sacred Instructions

Summary

A book of teaching from within one people’s tradition. Sherri Mitchell, an attorney and activist from the Penobscot Nation, shares what she received from her tribe’s elders. Her publisher describes a book ranging over Indigenous land rights, environmental justice, water protection and generational trauma, which holds that traditional stories frame belief, and that language and stories need decolonising.

Rationale

Relational ways of living survive, we wrote, “often despite centuries of colonial suppression”. Mitchell writes from inside one such tradition, the Penobscot Nation’s: theirs to teach, ours to learn from.