This volume "curates the evolving perspective of Jack Loeffler--itinerant wanderer, environmental warrior, storyteller, and story collector--whose true education began when he was marched into the Nevada desert one day at dawn to play 'The Stars and Stripes Forever' during an atomic bomb test a scant few miles away. Since that day in 1957, Jack's mission in life has been to record peoples of the borderlands and to bring 'indigenous mindedness' to the forefront of the conversation about our precarious environments and our decaying planet. [This] is a sweeping manifesto of Jack's core beliefs and long experience as a fierce (and funny) advocate for nature and nature-mindedness and against poisonous politics and policies"--
