Battle Grounds: The Canadian Military and Aboriginal Lands is a fascinating historical study of the use of First Nations lands by the Canadian military
demonstrating their ability to maintain seasonal mobility up to the mid-nineteenth century and their adaptive response to its loss
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as well as our own responses to crime
For example the author refers to returning First Nations soldiers as boys and on occasion employs the term native or aboriginal when referencing First Nations
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants (PB) Board Book Battle Grounds: The Canadian MilitaryBraiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants is poised to be a classic of traditional knowledge writing. As a botanist, Robin Wall Kimmerer asks questions of nature with the tools of science. As a member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation, Kimmerer draws on her life as an Indigenous scientist, a mother, and a woman, and shows how other living beings such as asters and goldenrod, strawberries and squash,