The Central Plains Library System has a set with 10 books. Call the office or email Denise or Deb to reserve this set for your Book Club.
Nebraska Public Media Book Club Kit
Inspired by the new Ken Burns documentary The American Buffalo
Book | Great Plains Bison by Dan O’Brien
Film | Seed Warriors by Rebekka Schlichting (Ioway Tribe of Kansas and Nebraska)
This book club kit explores the themes of conservation, restoration and respect. What can we learn from the stories of bison and the Pawnee seed keepers? How can conservation be practiced today? The downloadable, print-at-home book club guide includes:
· Discussion questions written by filmmaker Rebekka Schlichting
· Additional reading suggestions and organizations to explore
· Two recipes from Chef Anthony Warrior
Access the downloadable guide and watch Seed Warriors at NebraskaPublicMedia.org/bookclub.
About the book & film
· Great Plains Bison, written by buffalo rancher Dan O’Brien (also featured in The American Buffalo), traces the history and ecology of this American symbol from the origins of the great herds that once dominated the prairie to its near extinction in the late 19th century and the subsequent efforts to restore the bison population. A project of the Center for Great Plains Studies and the School of Natural Resources, University of Nebraska; published by Bison Books.
· Seed Warriors, directed by Rebekka Schlichting (Ioway Tribe of Kansas and Nebraska), follows a group of seed keepers in their ancestral homelands of Nebraska as they seek to regain sovereignty over the food system. By reclaiming their sacred corn seeds, they work to return to the healthy, traditional lifeways of the Pawnee people. Learn more at PawneeSeed.org. Produced in collaboration with Nebraska Public Media for the HOMEGROWN: Future Visions digital shorts series. HOMEGROWN: Future Visions is a Co-Production of Firelight Media and the Center for Asian American Media (CAAM), with funding provided by the CORPORATION FOR PUBLIC BROADCASTING (CPB), In Association with PBS.