Literary magical realism spanning three decades of queer history, where the power to heal comes at an impossible cost.She can save a life. But every healing steals years of her own.Kerry Cullinane learns at age five that she is a Healer bound to The Dark, a realm that claims her after every healing. Her abilities come with strict limits and heavy costs. She has only four chances to use this power, and the price of saving a life is time. Sometimes m...

**28 speeches and reflections from Indigenous leaders around the worldWisdom for our times, nourishment for our collective, and a pathway forward toward sustainable, interconnected futures**Indigenous worldviews, and the knowledge they confer, are critical for human survival and the wellbeing of future generations. Wahinkpe Topa (Four Arrows) and Darcia Narvaez present and discuss 28 powerful excerpted passages from Indigenous leaders, including Mourning Dove, Robin Wall Ki...

**28 speeches and reflections from Indigenous leaders around the worldWisdom for our times, nourishment for our collective, and a pathway forward toward sustainable, interconnected futures**Indigenous worldviews, and the knowledge they confer, are critical for human survival and the wellbeing of future generations. Wahinkpe Topa (Four Arrows) and Darcia Narvaez present and discuss 28 powerful excerpted passages from Indigenous leaders, including Mourning Dove, Robin Wall Ki...

This fascinating book demonstrates how hypnotic communication has the potential to improve patient outcomes in emergency care, integrating insights on the connection between mind and body for paramedics and other first responders.Providing a step-by-step guide to using these skills around a range of contexts, from managing pain to cardiovascular emergencies to burns to respiratory distress, the book asks paramedics and first responders to become aware of what they say to patients, ...

In times of extreme cascading global crises facing humanity, all responsible humans need to re-evaluate the dominant worldview that has brought us to this point of facing extinction. As a species we need to relearn the "good" ways from our greatest allies in Nature and from Indigenous cultures that lived in relative harmony with Nature. Equally, we need to learn the best ways to think critically and act on the holistic understanding that may guide us beyond our individual and collective tr...

When the owner of Oregon's largest cattle ranch - the Four Arrows - is shot by his horse in a freak accident, Royal Leckner suddenly finds himself charged with teaching the owner's retarded son to take over management of the ranch.

The emerging environmental justice movement has created greater awareness among scholars that communities from all over the world suffer from similar environmental inequalities. This volume takes up the challenge of linking the focussed campaigns and insights from African American campaigns for environmental justice with the perspectives of this global group of environmentally marginalized groups. The editorial team has drawn on Washington's work, on Paul Rosier's study of Native American ...

In 1800 Louisiana, under the shadow of Spanish rule, a dark magic that birthed the concepts of Good and Evil has resurfaced amidst the chaos of war and greed. In a world where magic is strictly forbidden, those who dare to harbor Casters face dire consequences—a death sentence by hanging for accomplices, and the blazing inferno of the stake for the accused witches and wizards.Human folk, their kingdoms and colonies are entwined in a treacherous web, employing Casters in shadowy bat...

Therapist Susan L. Herrmann draws on thirty years of clinical practice to guide readers through a personal and cultural reckoning with patriarchal conditioning. Grounded in the work of Four Arrows (Wahinkpe Topa), who contributes the foreword, the book introduces readers to the Kinship Worldview, the relational framework that sustained human communities for most of our existence, and offers it as a practical path toward healing the isolation, anxiety, and disconnection that define modern l...

Responding to anti-Indianism in America, the wide-ranging perspectives culled in Unlearning the Language of Conquest present a provocative account of the contemporary hegemony still at work today, whether conscious or unconscious. Four Arrows has gathered a rich collection of voices and topics, including:Waziyatawin Angela Cavender Wilson's "Burning Down the House: Laura Ingalls Wilder and American Colonialism," which probes the mentality of hatred woven within the p...

Valentine’s Day changes things. Sometimes quietly. Sometimes all at once. In this contemporary romance collection, four love stories unfold under pressure expectations, pride, timing, and want.A driven woman never expected a billionaire’s attention to feel this unsettling, or this real. His private jet waits on the tarmac. Her phone buzzes with missed calls. When ambition rubs against vulnerability, she has to decide whether love can lift her up or if the fall is unavoidable.

Indigenous Sustainable Wisdom: First Nation Know-how for Global Flourishing's contributors describe ways of being in the world that reflect a worldview that guided humanity for 99% of human history: They describe the practical traditional wisdom that stems from Nature-based relational cultures that were or are guided by this worldview. Such cultures did not cause the kinds of anti-Nature and de-humanizing or inequitable policies and practices that now pervade our world. Far from r...