This inspiring volume elaborates a new inclusive vision of a global and national order and articulates new approaches for protecting, healing, and restoring long-oppressed peoples, and for respecting their cultures and languages.

Marie Battiste is a Mi'kmaq educator from Potlo'tek First Nations in Nova Scotia, Canada, and a professor in the Indian and Northern Education Program at the University of Saskatchewan. She is co-editor of First Nations Education in Canada: The Circle Unfolds (UBC Press, 1996).