Nautilus Award, Silver Medal

We are thrilled to announce that A Fire at the Center just received the Silver Nautilus Award! The Nautilus Award exists to "celebrate and honor books that support conscious living and green values, wellness, social change, social justice, and spiritual growth." Thank you to everyone who has made this honor possible.

Good News! Audio Book Release

The audio book is now available through Libro.fm. At just 6 hours and 45 minutes, it takes listeners behind the scenes of the Dakota Access Pipeline conflict, to penitentiaries where prisoners of war have carried the movement onward, to the jail cell where Van Fossan was held for protesting Line 3, to a reimagining of decolonized family constellations, and to moments of collective hope and strength. Click "Learn More" for details.

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A Fire at the Center: Solidarity, Whiteness, and Becoming a Water Protector

Foreword by Sandra Bercier, Keeper of the Medicine. Written by Karen Van Fossan. When the living waters that crisscrossed the Standing Rock reservation came under threat, minister Karen Van Fossan asked herself what it means, as a descendent of colonialism, to resist her own colonial culture. When another pipeline, Line 3, came to threaten Anishinaabe ways of life, the question became even more resounding...

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