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The Cost of Free Land invites readers to consider their own culpability and what

including oral histories

but he was not denied the excitement of killing his first buffalo before leaving to attend the Carlisle Indian School in Pennsylvania

and women’s traditions of healing and making art

On Indigenuity: Learning the Lessons of Mother Earth boarding schools The Cost of Free LandMother Earth is calling on us to actthe collective wisdom of thousands of years of Indigenous knowledge can guide us. Indigenuity, or Indigenous ingenuity, stems from an ancient idea and practice that Native peoples have engaged in for millennia. It was born of a careful mindfulness and attentiveness to our planet and all of its creatures, and a recognition that human experience is intertwined with all that surrounds us. As a society, we rarely pay