Indigenous Vision

Steven Charleston's The Four Vision Quests of Jesus focuses on four specific experiences of Jesus as portrayed in the synoptic gospels. It examines each story as a “vision quest,” a universal spiritual phenomenon, but one of particular importance within North American indigenous communities.

In an era in which "resistance" has become tokenized, popular Indigenous author Kaitlin Curtice reclaims it as a basic human calling. Resistance is for every human who longs to see their neighbors' holistic flourishing. We each have a role to play in the world right where we are, and our everyday acts of resistance hold us all together.

NATIONAL BESTSELLER Winner of the 2024 Governor General's Literary Award for Nonfiction Named a Best Book of 2024 by Audible, Spotify, and Winnipeg Free Press One of CBC's Best Canadian Nonfiction of 2024 From ground zero of this country's most important project: reconciliation...

A Miwok girl hears voice. It is deep sounding as if coming from the mountains. She can't understand what the word is telling her so asks her grandmother. The word means vision quest, but what is the purpose? What is the meaning?

The Chippewa shaman No-Eyes shares her wisdom and perspective on life. No-Eyes sits in her humble Colorado cabin, offering startling but compelling visions of the future, including some upheavals on the horizon. Listening intently to her teacher and new friend, Summer Rain learns about the unique relationship between the Earth Mother and the many creatures in her domain.

Before the world was changed, it learned to forget. Long before empires crossed oceans, before history was written by conquerors, the people of the river built their lives from earth, water, and memory. They raised mounds to honor their dead. They believed the land would hold what they buried. They were wrong. When a young girl named Sani begins to hear what the river and the earth are trying to say, she becomes a witness to something her people have spent generations refusing to face. What was sealed away beneath ritual and tradition is not gone—it is growing. Hunger, grief, and fear ...