An Introduction to Indigenous Environmental Studies

We hope you join us in saying nya:wen ko:wa1, chi miigwech, danke schon to give thanks first of all to this place-land-earth here in the Great Lakes basin—to the earth, water, air and spirit beings who support us. We also say nya:wen ko:wa, chi miigwech, danke schon to give thanks to the Ancestors and all the human and other-than-human beings who fulfilled and continue to fulfil their responsibilities to Creation, the beings who share this place-land-earth. And we say nia:wen ko:wa, chi miigwech, danke schon to give thanks to the generations yet to come, the Coming Faces. Thinking of them is woven into our life’s work.