Children of the Seventh Fire--An Ancient Prophecy for Modern Times is a fully illustrated children's book for use by teachers, mentors, parents, outreach educators, and others interested in teaching t
Children of the Seventh Fire--An Ancient Prophecy for Modern Times is a fully illustrated children's book for use by teachers, mentors, parents, outreach educators, and others interested in teaching the importance of environmental conservation, protection, and sustainability. Using oral traditions from the indigenous people of eastern North America, namely the Anishinabe (also known as the “First” or “Original Peoples”), Hart has woven the Prophecy of the Seventh Fire into a children’s story which includes student characters of Native American and non-Native American cultures as they learn this prophecy from an Ojibwe elder, named Kinoo. Each era of this seven-phase prophecy is explained to the characters by Kinoo. The phases of the prophecy—known as “fires”—begins with the migration of the Anishinabe people from the Atlantic coast toward the western Great Lakes region and continues into the time of the Seventh Fire. Kinoo explains that we are now in the era of the seventh fire, and people of all races must learn to make the right choices to preserve our planet by reflecting on the destructive history of the past.
Lisa Hart was born in San Francisco, CA, but was raised for most of her life in rural Connecticut on 25 acres of fields, woods, streams, and a pond. After graduating from Warren Wilson College in 1985 with a BA in Intercultural Studies and a Master's Degree in Medical Anthropology from The University of Connecticut in 1989, she worked as the Associate Director of a private non-profit organization in North Carolina. Lisa also taught English as a second language in American Samoa, and has worked as a teaching assistant in grades K-8. In addition, she has interned at The Wittenberg Center for Alternative Resources, which hosted a wide variety of traditional indigenous elders who came to share their knowledge with the public. What had become inspiring to her was the thought of teaching children things they were not learning at home or in school. It became evident during her internship there that the wisdom found in traditional indigenous people’s cultures was lacking in teaching children from western society. One of those teachings (The Prophecy of the Seventh Fire) inspired this, her first, book.
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