Mother Earth Is Our Elder

Name: Mother Earth Is Our Elder
Price: 50 AUD
Availability: OutOfStock
ISBN: 9780063397224

A Northern Indigenous Path Toward Sustainable Living

Katlia (Catherine) Lafferty

$50

Hardback

Not in-store but you can order this
How long will it take?

Availability Information

We source books from suppliers in Australia and overseas. For books we don't currently have in stock, the time it takes to get them from our suppliers can vary widely - from a few days to a few months - so we check each book with each supplier to determine the expected time it will take to be supplied to us.

We will update you on expected arrival time to us. If this delay is too long, please let us know within 2 business days and we can give you options regarding cancelling or adjusting your order. More details on cancelling your order can be found in our Terms of Trade.

To find out the anticipated arrival time for specific items prior to ordering, please contact us by phone or email:

Phone +61 2 9264 3111, or 1800 4 BOOKS (1800 4 26657) if outside Sydney:
option 1 Abbey's Bookshop (Crime, History, Science, Kids & more) • info@abbeys.com.au
option 2 Language Book Centre (ESL & Foreign Languages) • language@abbeys.com.au
option 3 Galaxy Bookshop (Sci-fi, Fantasy, Romance, Graphic Novels) • sf@galaxybooks.com.au

QTY:

English

HarperOne
14 April 2026

Philosophy; First Nations; Regional government; Jurisprudence & general issues; Environmentalist thought & ideology

*
*
*Instant Globe and Mail Bestseller
*
*
*

Indigenous solutions we can all apply today to make our lives more sustainable and engage with earth and community from award-winning Dene activist and writer Katlia.

The Dene in Canada’s North West territories have lived alongside nature for many generations. From battling environmental racism on the front lines of historical environmental protests, to innovating sustainable resources, to living a balanced life through effective individual and collective governance, the Dene have long protected Mother Earth from destruction through their intricate knowledge systems, natural laws, and age-old principles, which are shared here for the first time thank to the contributions of tribal elders.

This is ancient information, but it’s new to those outside the Dene community, and Katlia's voice channels our collective energy toward surprisingly simple scalable solutions such as:

sustainable, ethical food sources as a path toward food sovereignty intermittent renewables and innovative alternatives to heat and power homes housing systems incorporating green technologies into cultural ways of knowing that include living off grid cultural burning to mitigate out of control wildfires

Adhering proudly to these responsibilities and values, Katlia (pronounced cat-lee-ah) writes a Dene manifesto fit to address the state of emergency we’re in. Informed by Katlia's decades-long award-winning work and advocacy as a writer and activist, and her life experiences as a Dene woman from the north, this book achieves global relevance by focusing on the local.

With evidence of how this all works for the Dene people, we see how it might work for us as well. This generous, pragmatic, and hopeful book shows us how to find coexistence with Mother Earth and embrace the wisdom of our local Indigenous communities.

Mother Earth Is Our Elder features 10 original black-and-white photographs.

By: Katlia (Catherine) Lafferty
Imprint: HarperOne
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm,
Weight: 535g
ISBN: 9780063397224
ISBN 10: 0063397226
Pages: 384
Publication Date: 14 April 2026
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Katlia is a member of the Yellowknives Dene First Nation in Somba K'e (Yellowknife), Northwest Territories, Canada. She is a storyteller and Indigenous rights activist. Katlia's debut memoir, Northern Wildflower, was a top-selling book in the Northwest Territories and her subsequent novels Land-Water-Sky/Ndè-Ti-Yat'a, This House Is Not a Home and Firekeeper all won a NorthWords NWT book of the year awards.

Reviews for Mother Earth Is Our Elder: A Northern Indigenous Path Toward Sustainable Living

Through her writing, Katli?`a gifts us strong medicine from the North, transforming our relationship with climate change from the abstract into the voice of a stern and caring Elder—our Mother Earth. Through the stories of her Dene Elders and knowledge keepers, she leaves us not only with warnings, but with the hopeful reminder that the solutions already live within the lived memory of the Peoples of the land. — Dr. Jennifer Grenz, author of Medicine Wheel for the Planet