OK, I’ve got a couple more additions:
The Secret of Saying Thanks by Douglas Wood
We read this and took it to heart–then I heard Mohawk elder Jake Swamp’s words about giving thanks last week and felt moved to share this w/other parents.
Crow and Weasel by Barry Lopez
Two young braves venture out to go further north than any of their people have ever gone. Our first “children’s storybook” in which the characters make bowdrill fires, hunt and dry meat, etc.
The Dark Way: Stories from the Spirit World, told by Virginia Hamilton
banshees, goblins, boogeymen, manitous, witches, magicians, godesses, golems, and good ole Fenris!
I have something to add from the spirit world–all the books above jumped off the shelf at me in a secondhand book store–I wasn’t looking for them, they found me. I hadn’t even planned on going to that store, I think it tugged me.
Another recent read that I hugely enjoyed, Going Native by Tom Harmer, did the same thing at the library as I walked past its shelf.
How can I leave this out?
Indian Camping and Fishing by Robert Hofsinde
found it in the kids’ section at Powells–but great for rewilding “grownups” too–cool drawings of various fish-catching implements made from sticks and cordage, and ways to cut & hang up fish to dry/cook. . .