Buffalo Shout, Salmon Cry: Conversations on Creation, Land Justice, and Life Together
Superb! For centuries our misunderstandings and conflicts have accumulated . . . In this book the issues are opened, offering information, insights, and resolutions that amaze our usual thinking. Read it carefully; with a prayer for understanding.—Rudy Wiebe, novelist, co-author with Yvonne Johnson ofStolen Life: The Journey of a Cree WomanThis invaluable collection calls us to decolonize theology and interrogate how the logics of settler colonialism have infused Christianity. At the same time, it refuses the temptation to replace one metanarrative with another.—Andrea Smith, author ofNative Americans and the Christian RightSteve Heinrichs has edited a courageous and urgent book. The voices that speak here sound from outside the theopolitical, social-economic domination system of our society. The book is an invitation to rethink both policy and attitude. Attention must be paid!—Walter Brueggemann, Columbia Theological SeminaryThere is no cheap grace available in these pages, but there is great encouragement to move ourselves toward the deepest, most demanding places of hope in our mutual search for a truly just and compassionate life together with all creation. Every participant in theseconversationsurges us to take all the great, imperative risks of spiritual and intellectual growth, insisting on our deepest truths as our guide.—Vincent Harding, veteran activist and scholar, Illif School of TheologyBuffalo Shout, Salmon Cryoffers precisely the sort of dialogue essential to the establishment at long last of respectful relations between peoples in this hemisphere. Such conversations are necessary to forging a sustainable relationship between humans and the rest of creation. Steve Heinrichs is to be commended for having assembled this book.—Ward Churchill, author ofStruggle for the LandMind blowing. Once you read the book, you will never look at the world, or your place within it, the same way again. The voices within these covers offer sobering and challenging truths. I am uncomfortably humbled.--Christine J. Sabas, attorney and advocate with Christian Peacemaker Teams