We Survived the End of the World: Lessons from Native America on Apocalypse and

Description: We Survived the End of the World by Steven Charleston Native America has confronted apocalypse for more than four hundred years. Choctaw elder Steven Charleston tells the stories of four Indigenous prophets who helped their people learn strategies for surviving catastrophe, using their lessons and wisdom as guidance for how we can face the uncertainty of the modern age. FORMAT Hardcover LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description From the moment European settlers reached these shores, the American apocalypse began. But Native Americans did not vanish. Apocalypse did not fully destroy them, and it doesnt have to destroy us. Pandemics and war, social turmoil and corrupt governments, natural disasters and environmental collapse--its hard not to watch the signs of the times and feel afraid. But we can journey through that fear to find hope. With the warnings of a prophet and the lively voice of a storyteller, Choctaw elder and author of Ladder to the Light Steven Charleston speaks to all who sense apocalyptic dread rising around and within.Youd be hard pressed to find an apocalypse more total than the one Native America has confronted for more than four hundred years. Yet Charlestons ancestors are a case study in the liberating and hopeful survival of a spiritual community. How did Indigenous communities achieve the miracle of their own survival and live to tell the tale? What strategies did Americas Indigenous people rely on that may help us to endure an apocalypse--or perhaps even prevent one from happening?Charleston points to four Indigenous prophets who helped their people learn strategies for surviving catastrophe: Ganiodaiio of the Seneca, Tenskwatawa of the Shawnee, Smohalla of the Wanapams, and Wovoka of the Paiute. Through gestures such as turning the culture upside down, finding a fixed place on which to stand, listening to what the earth is saying, and dancing a ghostly vision into being, these prophets helped their people survive. Charleston looks, too, at the Hopi people of the American Southwest, whose sacred stories tell them they were created for a purpose. These ancestors words reach across centuries to help us live through apocalypse today with courage and dignity. Author Biography Steven Charleston is a leading voice of justice for Indigenous peoples, the environment, and spiritual renewal. A member of the Choctaw Nation, Charleston has appeared on ABC World News Tonight, BBC World News, and other outlets. The author of more than a dozen books on theology and spirituality, including Ladder to the Light, Charleston has served as the Episcopal bishop of Alaska, president and dean of the Episcopal Divinity School, and professor of systematic theology at Luther Seminary. He serves as the theologian in residence at Berkeley Divinity School at Yale University. Charleston lives with his wife, Susan, in Oklahoma. Review "A retired Episcopal bishop and citizen of the Choctaw Nation, responds to climate change, Covid-19, and other global crises by invoking the wisdom of Indigenous leaders whose communities struggled against white settlement." --Publishers Weekly"Steven Charlestons We Survived the End of the World is a poignant, deeply moving account of the many lessons the world can learn from Native American responses to the apocalypse of settler colonialism. These lessons are ever more urgently necessary now that the entire planet faces the predicament of the Indigenous peoples whose worlds were destroyed by maelstroms of avarice and aggression." --Amitav Ghosh, author of The Great Derangement"Steven Charlestons voice is strong, clear, poetic, and possessed by great urgency. With this graceful and insightful weaving of history and activism, he reveals to his readers a reconfigured past, as well as the possibility of a brighter future if we can reclaim forgotten values and suppressed wisdom." --Alexandra Kleeman, author of Something New Under the Sun"The politics of fear drives us into bunkers. In this reflection on the prophets and prophecies of Indigenous peoples, Steven Charleston invites us to imagine another way forward, invites us to emerge from these bunkers and face the uncertainties of apocalypse in communities built on relationship to each other and the other-than-human world around us." --Patty Krawec, author of Becoming Kin Details ISBN1506486673 Author Steven Charleston Short Title We Survived the End of the World Language English Year 2023 ISBN-10 1506486673 ISBN-13 9781506486673 Format Hardcover Publication Date 2023-09-19 Imprint Broadleaf Books Subtitle Lessons from Native America on Apocalypse and Hope Pages 207 Country of Publication United States NZ Release Date 2023-09-19 US Release Date 2023-09-19 UK Release Date 2023-09-19 Alternative 9781506486680 DEWEY 191.08997 Audience General AU Release Date 2023-09-18 Publisher Augsburg Fortress Publishers We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. 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