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An inspiring personal transformation through rediscovery of Indigenous self.
“I was lost before I was born”: the starting point of Pacheedaht Elder Bill Jones’ lifelong journey of decolonization. “You were all Indigenous once”: the starting point for ending a world based on exploitation and greed.
At Port Renfrew, British Columbia, in 2020, both settlers and First Nations experienced a re-indigenization and became reacquainted with our Great Mother during the fight to save some of the last remaining old growth forest at the Fairy Creek Blockades. As Elder Bill sat in a tent during a West Coast storm at the height of the protests, he experienced the final phase of his personal decolonization, his absolute re-indigenization, when he realized: “I know what happened!”, a revelation that has informed his life ever since.
Combining the story of Elder Bill’s personal life and ancestors, elder wisdom, settler feminism, and the inspirational story of the Fairy Creek Blockades — the largest act of civil disobedience in Canada — Listening Once Again to Our Great Mother is wisdom weaving to motivate those towards their own self-awakening, even after Elder Bill is gone.
“I was lost before I was born”: the starting point of Pacheedaht Elder Bill Jones’ lifelong journey of decolonization. “You were all Indigenous once”: the starting point for ending a world based on exploitation and greed.
At Port Renfrew, British Columbia, in 2020, both settlers and First Nations experienced a re-indigenization and became reacquainted with our Great Mother during the fight to save some of the last remaining old growth forest at the Fairy Creek Blockades. As Elder Bill sat in a tent during a West Coast storm at the height of the protests, he experienced the final phase of his personal decolonization, his absolute re-indigenization, when he realized: “I know what happened!”, a revelation that has informed his life ever since.
Combining the story of Elder Bill’s personal life and ancestors, elder wisdom, settler feminism, and the inspirational story of the Fairy Creek Blockades — the largest act of civil disobedience in Canada — Listening Once Again to Our Great Mother is wisdom weaving to motivate those towards their own self-awakening, even after Elder Bill is gone.
Price: $23.99
Pages: 288
Publisher: Dundurn Press
Imprint: Dundurn Press
Publication Date:
29 September 2026
Trim Size: 9.00 X 6.00 in
ISBN: 9781459757912
Format: Paperback
BISACs:
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Indigenous, Autobiography: general, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Social Activists, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Indigenous Peoples of Turtle Island
Elder Bill Jones’s life spans the spiritual and emotional devastation of the cultural genocide of Indigenous peoples in Canada. From a childhood and early adulthood on the Pacheedaht First Nation reservation navigating the fall out of trauma from the residential school system, to the racism he experienced working in the colonized world, he became a ʔuuštaqyu through his own spiritual awakening and is a holder of First Nations traditions and ritual. He lives in Sooke, BC.
Karen Moe is an artist, feminist activist, and author of Victim: A Feminist Manifesto from a Fierce Survivor. She lives in Lantzville, BC.
Karen Moe is an artist, feminist activist, and author of Victim: A Feminist Manifesto from a Fierce Survivor. She lives in Lantzville, BC.