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A bold and lyrical picture book about protecting nature’s most sacred resources.

Water is the first medicine.
It affects and connects us all.
Water is sacred.

My people talk of a black snake that will destroy the land,
Spoil the water, wreck everything in its path.
They foretold that it wouldnt come for many, many years.

Now the black snake is here.

Told from the perspective of a Native American child, this bold and lyrical picture book written by Ojibwe/Mtis author Carole Lindstrom and illustrated by Tlingit artist Michaela Goade is a powerful call to action to defend Earths natural resourcesinspired by the Dakota Access Pipeline protests and similar movements led by Indigenous tribes all across North America.