Book Launch & Discussion “Listening Once Again to Our Great Mother: The Fairy Creek Blockades and the Life Story of Pacheedaht Elder Bill Jones.”
Join Elder Bill Jones, spiritual leader of the Rainforest Flying Squad and the Old-Growth Forest Protectors, and co-author Karen Moe for the launch of their book Listening Once Again to Our Great Mother: The Fairy Creek Blockades and the Life Story of Pacheedaht Elder Bill Jones (Dundurn Press, 2026) followed by a discussion and book-signing on September 17th, 2026 at Russell Books, 747 Fort Street, Victoria, BC.
Tickets: $10 or VIP $30, including a signed copy of the book, go to:
https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/book-release-listening-once-again-to-our-great-mother-tickets-1997795537231?aff=oddtdtcreator
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“With the masterful insight and skill of Karen Moe, Elder Bill Jones breaks our hearts open with his deeply personal expose of the ongoing trauma inflicted on Indigenous people and their beautiful ancestral forests by colonial capitalism in Canada.”
-Suzanne Simard author of When the Forest Breathes.
“The teachings of Elder Bill are inspirational. This is myth, legend, theology and philosophy. It is the essential teaching for our time.”
-Elizabeth May, O.C., M.P
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“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.
Join Elder Bill Jones, spiritual leader of the Rainforest Flying Squad and the Old-Growth Forest Protectors, and co-author Karen Moe for the launch of their book Listening Once Again to Our Great Mother: The Fairy Creek Blockades and the Life Story of Pacheedaht Elder Bill Jones (Dundurn Press, 2026) followed by a discussion and book-signing on September 17th, 2026 at Russell Books, 747 Fort Street, Victoria, BC.
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“With the masterful insight and skill of Karen Moe, Elder Bill Jones breaks our hearts open with his deeply personal expose of the ongoing trauma inflicted on Indigenous people and their beautiful ancestral forests by colonial capitalism in Canada.”
-Suzanne Simard author of When the Forest Breathes.
“The teachings of Elder Bill are inspirational. This is myth, legend, theology and philosophy. It is the essential teaching for our time.”
-Elizabeth May, O.C., M.P
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“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.