The Barren Grounds (The Misewa Saga, #1)
By: David Alexander Robertson
3.90
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Morgan and Eli, two Indigenous children forced away from their families and communities, are brough…
Want to Read $ 9.99"Stories always lead people somewhere, To a place, to a memory."-David Alexander Robertson, The Barren Grounds (The Misewa Saga, #1)
"Stories always lead people somewhere, To a place, to a memory."-David Alexander Robertson, The Barren Grounds (The Misewa Saga, #1)
"Humans...The land provides everything that anybody would need. If you take only what you need, the land renews itself so that it can provide more. Medicines, water, plants, meat. In exchange, because we don’t really have anything the land wants, we honor it for what it gives us...When you take more than the land can provide, it stops giving. It can’t give. That’s what’s happened here. That’s what happens with humans."-David Alexander Robertson, The Barren Grounds (The Misewa Saga, #1)
"Humans...The land provides everything that anybody would need. If you take only what you need, the land renews itself so that it can provide more. Medicines, water, plants, meat. In exchange, because we don’t really have anything the land wants, we honor it for what it gives us...When you take more than the land can provide, it stops giving. It can’t give. That’s what’s happened here. That’s what happens with humans."-David Alexander Robertson, The Barren Grounds (The Misewa Saga, #1)
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6. The Barren Grounds (The Misewa Saga, #1)
By: David Alexander Robertson
3.90
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Morgan and Eli, two Indigenous children forced away from their families and communities, are brough… read more
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"Stories always lead people somewhere, To a place, to a memory."-David Alexander Robertson, The Barren Grounds (The Misewa Saga, #1)
"Humans...The land provides everything that anybody would need. If you take only what you need, the land renews itself so that it can provide more. Medicines, water, plants, meat. In exchange, because…"-David Alexander Robertson, The Barren Grounds (The Misewa Saga, #1)
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