Changing Tides: An Ecologist's Journey to Make Peace with the Anthropocene gardening Erdrich's virtuosity reminds me of

Erdrich's virtuosity reminds me of an eagle in flight

Five hundred years of European colonialism

and her poetry

yet Geniusz has carried on her legacy by making this body of knowledge accessible to a broader audience

culminating in the infamous massacre at Wounded Knee of 250 Lakota men

Changing Tides: An Ecologist's Journey to Make Peace with the Anthropocene gardening Erdrich's virtuosity reminds me ofChange the story and change the future merging science and Indigenous knowledge to steer us towards a more benign Anthropocene. As humanity marches on, causing mass extinctions and destabilizing the climate, the future of Earth will very much reflect the stories that Homo sapiens decides to jettison or accept today into our collective identity. At this pivotal moment in history, the most important story we can be telling ourselves is that humans are