I Love Salmon and Lampreys Odawa and to this day you

and to this day you will find cottonwood trees living near bodies of water and beavers living near cottonwood trees

The language of the scientists that Erdrich sometimes quotes in epigraphs seems reductive in comparison to the richness of tone and meaning that these poems— filled with puns

and what stories might allow us to shift the collective psyche of industrial civilization in time to avert the worst of the climate and biodiversity crises

Despite how little communications technology has helped to bring people toward understanding one another

or anti-racism work

I Love Salmon and Lampreys Odawa and to this day youFor young readers, an inspiring story about a river, a successful Native led movement for environmental justice, and the making of a scientist. Growing up in the Yurok and Karuk Tribes, Brook Thompson learned to care for the fish that nurtured her and her family. She knew that along the Klamath River in Northern California, salmon and lampreys are a needed part of life. But she also saw how these fish were in danger. People had built dams along the