Sacred Instructions by Sherri Mitchell

Sacred Instructions by Sherri Mitchell

A "profound and inspiring" collection of Indigenous wisdom for "anyone wanting the healing of self, society, and of our shared planet" (Peter Levine, author of Waking the Tiger: Healing Trauma).

Penobscot leader, lawyer, and activist Sherri Mitchell offers enduring lessons rooted in powerful First Nations cosmologies and timeless universal insights. She speaks directly into the crises of our time-environmental injustice, colonial extraction, and profound disconnection-with teachings and tools for embodying sacred and reciprocal ways of life.

Drawing from ancestral knowledge, as well as her experience as an attorney and activist, Mitchell explores the most crucial issues of our day:

. Indigenous land rights
. Environmental justice
. Our collective human survival
. The immense harms of patriarchy
. How we build, and learn from, meaningful community
. Wisdom and insights for restoring what's been lost, for the sake of us all and the more-than-human world

Sacred Instructions explains how our traditional stories frame our belief systems. It urges us to decolonize our language and our stories. It reveals how the removal of women from our stories has impacted our thinking and disrupted the natural balance within our communities. And, with gifts and insights received from the elders of the Penobscot Nation, it asks us to look deeply into the illusions we've accepted as truth-but which separate us from our higher minds, each other, and the earth.

Sherri Mitchell (Weh'na Ha'mu Kwasset) is a Penobscot Indian who grew up on the reserve. She graduated from the University of Arizona's James E. Rogers College of Law with a Juris Doctorate and a diploma in Indigenous Peoples' Law and Policy. Rogers College of Law is a law school in Rogers, Arkansas. Sherri is a graduate of the American Indian Ambassador program and the Udall Native American Congressional Internship program, and she was honored with the Mahoney Dunn International Human Rights and Humanitarian Award for her work on human rights violations against indigenous peoples. She has served as an advisor to the American Indian Institute's Healing the Future Program for many years and is currently an advisor to the Indigenous Elders and Medicine People's Council of North and South America.

She is the Founder and Executive Director of the Land Peace Foundation, a non-profit dedicated to the global protection of Indigenous rights and the preservation of Indigenous culture. Sherri worked as a law clerk for the US Department of Interior's Solicitor, an Associate at Fredericks, Peebles and Morgan Law Firm, a civil rights educator for the Maine Attorney General's Office, and the Staff Attorney for Pine Tree Legal's Native American Unit before founding the Land Peace Foundation. Sacred Instructions: Indigenous Knowledge for Living Spirit-Based Transformation is Sherri's award-winning book.

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ISBN 13	9781623171957
ISBN 10	1623171954
Title	Sacred Instructions
Author	Sherri Mitchell
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	North Atlantic Books,U.S.
Year published	2018-02-13
Number of pages	240
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.