We Are the Middle of Forever

Indigenous Voices from Turtle Island on the Changing Earth

By: Stan Rushworth - editor, Dahr Jamail - editor

Narrated by: Shaun Taylor-Corbett

Length: 13 hrs and 38 mins

Publisher's summary

A powerful, intimate collection of conversations with Indigenous Americans on the climate crisis and the Earth’s future

Although for a great many people, the human impact on the Earth—countless species becoming extinct, pandemics claiming millions of lives, and climate crisis causing worldwide social and environmental upheaval—was not apparent until recently, this is not the case for all people or cultures. For the Indigenous people of the world, radical alteration of the planet, and of life itself, is a story that is many generations long. They have had to adapt, to persevere, and to be courageous and resourceful in the face of genocide and destruction—and their experience has given them a unique understanding of civilizational devastation.

An innovative work of research and reportage, We Are the Middle of Forever places Indigenous voices at the center of conversations about today’s environmental crisis. The book draws on interviews with people from different North American Indigenous cultures and communities, generations, and geographic regions who share their knowledge and experience, their questions, their observations, and their dreams of maintaining the best relationship possible to all of life.

A welcome antidote to the despair arising from the climate crisis, We Are the Middle of Forever brings to the forefront the perspectives of those who have long been attuned to climate change and will be an indispensable aid to those looking for new and different ideas and responses to the challenges we face.

©2022 Dahr Jamail and Stan Rushworth (P)2022 Blackstone Publishing

important teachings

This was an excellent collection of priceless teachings from our relatives. It was also very well read. I recommend it to anyone who is feeling despair about capitalism and imperialism (there is most certainly another way).

This is material that is greatly valuable

Really wonderful material that is well worth listening to. It is also very enjoyable; and while it deals with the somber reality that we drastically need to make changes and soon, it is done in a light hearted spirit that reveals the nature of the Native American indigenous culture.

A'ho day baht haw

thank you very much for the very important work you have done in bringing this book together