not just human beings

tender affection that parents felt toward a child whose life had been threatened

the nineteenth-century painter whose Native American subjects often regarded his portraits with suspicious wonder

chronically underfunded federal programs

The Water Walker poetry not just human beingsThe determined story of an Ojibwe grandmother (nokomis), Josephine Mandamin, and her great love for nibi (water). Nokomis walks to raise awareness of our need to protect nibi for future generations and for all life on the planet. She, along with other women, men and youth, has walked around all the Great Lakes from the four salt waters, or oceans, to Lake Superior. The walks are full of challenges, and by her example she challenges us all to take up