Talking with Mother Earth Novel Take the Mic's powerful collection

Take the Mic's powerful collection of stories features work by literary luminaries and emerging talent alike

Although the boy grew up in what we in North America consider poverty

Gerhard Ens is an associate professor at Brandon University

the First Nation once known as the Petun

three-year community-university research collaboration with a focus on the strengths and difficulties of participatory

Talking with Mother Earth Novel Take the Mic's powerful collectionTalking with Mother Earth (Hablando con Madre Tierra) is a bilingual (Spanish and English) picture book that celebrates the Indigenous People of Central America and their appreciation for the land and all creation. The poems in the book are told by the Pipil Nahua Indian author, Jorge Argueta, as a young boy growing up in El Salvador. As a boy he has two names, Tetl (Nahual) and Jorge (Spanish). The spiritual connection to Mother Earth transcends all