We Are Water Protectors

 

Shirley J.                      Juvenile Non-Fiction                          Native Americans Protectors of Water

We Are Water Protectors by Carole Lindstrom  40 pages

Beautifully illustrated, the book tells of how in Native American culture the prophesy of the black snake destroying the world by poisoning its water is coming true.   Native Americans have been given the role by the Great Spirit of protecting the earth's water and are trying to fulfill that purpose by the protests at Standing Rock and other locations on Native American land where big oil is coming through and taking over without regard to the legal rights of the indigenous tribes on the land that the government allegedly gave ownership rights to after the great resettlement of the plains people to some of the harshest real estate in the United States.   Still even now they are treated as if they don't matter and have no rights to who can come in and what is and is not allowed on "their land."   This book is calling warriors to stand up for the earth and its water.  The pipelines snaking across Native American land leak black oil on the earth and in the water  supplies and try as they might the fight continues and big oil only becomes more powerful.   It is the Ojibwe and a multitude of other tribes calling for unity to stand together against this oppressor and save the earth.  I highly recommend this brilliantly illustrated book with its telling of money and might corrupting the land while the people who were here first rise up to do what is right and protect that land.