I think this is compelling in its calls to action for everyone, and obviously the linkage of indigenous knowledge and western scientific knowledge is interesting. Some of the things she said made me go "yikes," especially around the persistence of describing Native people as "the first immigrants"--which is less her fault exactly and more the knowledge of how much this book appeals to settlers and settler-descendants and the dangers of that discourse in those (/our) hands. It also started to feel somewhat repetitive by the end, but that could be that this isn't my first exposure to the topic and so I'm mixing books.

But I do think it's effective in what it sets out to do, and can definitely be a useful teaching tool. I just am not sure it really pushes settlers and settler-descendants to consider their complicity in a far enough direction, or tries too hard to be soft on us? Which maybe she's decided is the way she wants to move forward, but it left me unsettled because it tends to lean into a "we're all equally complicit!" way.