Ashley Fairbanks is an Indigenous author, artist, and activist. Ashley is Anishinaabekwe from the White Earth Nation. She was raised in Minnesota and now lives in Texas.

Her new children’s book This Land: The History of the Land We’re On serves as a great jumping off point for early readers, older kids, and even adults to begin to question who used to live on the land that today makes up the U.S. and Canada.

Ashley joins Heath to discuss keeping Native American experiences in the present tense, reconnecting with native lands across the world, and reframing environmental activism.

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