Di-bayn-di-zi-win (To Own Ourselves): Embodying Ojibway-Anishinabe Ways

These messages must be for ourselves first and foremost in that a much-neglected area in our struggle is the reclaiming of our minds — our own imaginations. Di-bayn-di-zi-win will be useful for our people here in New Zealand and many of the Indigenous jurisdictions I have worked with across the world.

Graham Hingangaroa Smith, Distinguished Professor, Massey University - NZ

There are multiple ways to inhabit our deepest principles. There are also many ways to honor land and our elders by embodying the teachings of both. Here is life found in kindness, loving, and truth. How do we access healing and how do we share this healing with others? Reading this book is one way. Tears of gratitude are for you both, Jerry Fontaine and Don McCaskill. Mahalo nui no ko ?ike nahenahe. Thank you for this mutual emergence shaped as much by friendship as it is by ?ike kupuna - elder knowledge. What is within these pages are ceremonial gifts offered to all who will take the time to connect with what is inevitable about our collective evolution.

Manulani Aluli Meyer, University of Hawaii

The work that will take us towards the equitable and respectful mutual co-existence that our ancestors envisioned with each treaty signed to share land and resources includes this book and others to come.

Phil Fontaine, former National Chief of the Assembly of First Nations

This book can be a source of inspiration to take a new path, in and out of academia, for both Indigenous and non-Indigenous people.

Gustavo Esteva, Universidad de la Tierra en Oaxaca