Native and non-Native parents and children online and in-store book purchases
Private purchases by elementary school teachers and college professors US/Canada
Libraries
Lac Courte Oreilles Ojibwe Elementary School and College
Waadookodaading Ojibwe Language Immersion School
Northland College - a cultural resource in the student Native Center.
Midewiwin Anishinabe educators for classes/programs US and Canada
Environmental Education workshops for teachers - lead by Project Indigenous.
University of Wisconsin, Stephen’s Point - Environmental Education curriculum
Northern Great Lakes Visitor Center, Ashland, WI - children’s programs over 7 years
Anishinabek Youth Workers throughout Ontario, Canada
Province of Manitoba, Canada - Youth Correctional Centres throughout Manitoba
University of Winnipeg - First Nations Studies
Algoma College, Sault St Marie, Ontario - First Nations Studies
"The time to empower our children with indigenous wisdom is now. Lisa Hart's Children of the Seventh Fire provides an
opportunity for parents, teachers, and all adults charged with the education of our children, to support natural life in defense of our planet.
With the moving Foreword of Eddie Benton-Banai, the reader becomes immediately aware of the need for the traditional teachings of
the Seventh Fire to go forth, and go forth they do through Hart's story and artist, Joe Liles', imagery.
Children of the Seventh Fire describes and explains insightful glimpses of Anishinabe prophesies and reminds readers of
America's first seers and first environmentalists, American Indians. Without doubt, the assault on our environment is an
assault on our children and the future of all children. Children of the Seventh Fire empowers the reader, indeed,
regardless of age, with wisdom and positive opportunities to help restore the balance in our world and in our lives,
finding ways to contribute to the health of the earth, and not participate in this present day technological insanity and greed that
threatens all life as we know it. As one of the children in the story learns, 'We need to think with our minds ... and our hearts.'"
- Gabriel Horn (White Deer of Autumn), one of the original teachers in the American Indian Movement Survival Schools,
acclaimed professor and award-winning author, (for children) The Great Change; (for adults) co-author of the novel, Transcendence.
"The Seven Fires teachings have a lot to say about our respectful relationship to the earth, setting a high standard for ecological
awareness for people of all races and age groups. Although these orally transmitted teachings are known to almost all
Anishinabe and related peoples of North America, Children of the Seventh Fire is the first book ever published which
offers an introduction to these timely but ancient teachings to non-native school children ages 8 through 12. Using modern characters
such as 'Kinoo' a native elder, Kayla, a public school student who is eager to learn, and her friend TJ, who is not so eager at
first but who becomes so over time, this storybook offers students and teachers alike a clear and helpful path towards understanding this
vast body of native wisdom. Ms. Hart has spent many years discussing this project with elders, fine-tuning its content, and sparing no
effort to get the story right in a way that does not ignore the mistakes of the past, but which has a positive effect on children.
Presented in simple terms, it is based on The Mishomis Book by Edward Benton-Banai, which has been in print for over 35 years and
which has inspired thousands. Children of the Seventh Fire fills an immediate need in the lives of our children, the need
to understand how to live more in harmony with a rapidly changing earth."
- Evan Pritchard, author of No Word for Time, the Way of the Algonquin People, and Henry Hudson and the Algonquins of New York,
is Director of the Center for Algonquin Culture (Pine Hill, NY) and has taught at Marist, Pace and Vassar Colleges.
He has also worked as an advisor to his state Board of Education on Native American issues.
"Children of the Seventh Fire is long overdue. It reflects ancient indigenous wisdom, needed today by everyone living in
today's industrialized society. The story tells of struggle, rediscovery of native culture and a vision of a healed and balanced world where
people and the earth are again connected. We need more stories like this one, encouraging children to rediscover their true sprit through
nature and create positive change both environmentally and socially. The sound of the eagle is a good sign and a well placed beginning to the
story. The illustrations are outstanding and compliment this powerful story."
- Scott Frazier, Director, Project Indigenous, Traditional Environmental Educator.
"The time to empower our children with indigenous wisdom is now. Lisa Hart's Children of the Seventh Fire provides an
opportunity for parents, teachers, and all adults charged with the education of our children, to support natural life in defense of our planet.
With the moving Foreword of Eddie Benton-Banai, the reader becomes immediately aware of the need for the traditional teachings of
the Seventh Fire to go forth, and go forth they do through Hart's story and artist, Joe Liles', imagery.
Children of the Seventh Fire describes and explains insightful glimpses of Anishinabe prophesies and reminds readers of
America's first seers and first environmentalists, American Indians. Without doubt, the assault on our environment is an
assault on our children and the future of all children. Children of the Seventh Fire empowers the reader, indeed,
regardless of age, with wisdom and positive opportunities to help restore the balance in our world and in our lives,
finding ways to contribute to the health of the earth, and not participate in this present day technological insanity and greed that
threatens all life as we know it. As one of the children in the story learns, 'We need to think with our minds ... and our hearts.'"
"The Seven Fires teachings have a lot to say about our respectful relationship to the earth, setting a high standard for ecological
awareness for people of all races and age groups. Although these orally transmitted teachings are known to almost all
Anishinabe and related peoples of North America, Children of the Seventh Fire is the first book ever published which
offers an introduction to these timely but ancient teachings to non-native school children ages 8 through 12. Using modern characters
such as 'Kinoo' a native elder, Kayla, a public school student who is eager to learn, and her friend TJ, who is not so eager at
first but who becomes so over time, this storybook offers students and teachers alike a clear and helpful path towards understanding this
vast body of native wisdom. Ms. Hart has spent many years discussing this project with elders, fine-tuning its content, and sparing no
effort to get the story right in a way that does not ignore the mistakes of the past, but which has a positive effect on children.
Presented in simple terms, it is based on The Mishomis Book by Edward Benton-Banai, which has been in print for over 35 years and
which has inspired thousands. Children of the Seventh Fire fills an immediate need in the lives of our children, the need
to understand how to live more in harmony with a rapidly changing earth."
"Children of the Seventh Fire is long overdue. It reflects ancient indigenous wisdom, needed today by everyone living in
today's industrialized society. The story tells of struggle, rediscovery of native culture and a vision of a healed and balanced world where
people and the earth are again connected. We need more stories like this one, encouraging children to rediscover their true sprit through
nature and create positive change both environmentally and socially. The sound of the eagle is a good sign and a well placed beginning to the
story. The illustrations are outstanding and compliment this powerful story."