Trees can talk. That’s the surprising discovery at the heart of ecologist Suzanne Simard’s over thirty-five years of research in the forests of Canada, where she grew up. Her new book, Finding the Mother Tree, is in many ways an autobiography, tracing her family’s connection to the land. But it’s also about her years of […]
Uncovering Indigenous History in Canada
During the past two weeks, nearly 1,000 sets of human remains have been found in unmarked graves at the sites of former residential schools in Canada. Throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, Indigenous children were taken away from their families and placed in these schools—and now, with public outcry and calls to cancel Canada Day, […]
