The Four Hills of Life: Ojibwe Wisdom Choctaw Tribal members representing each region

Tribal members representing each region and experts at the National Museum of the American Indian at the Smithsonian Institution were involved in its creation

Undeniably political

Gonzales combines her lived experience in "Red Medicine" as an herbalist and traditional birth attendant with in-depth research into oral traditions

while Loon spent her days in her iglu working away on her sewing

To gather all these essential pieces

The Four Hills of Life: Ojibwe Wisdom Choctaw Tribal members representing each regionThe Four Hills of Life tells the wise and beautiful Ojibwe story about the path we walk through the seasons of life, from the springtime of youth through the winter of old age. The hills we climb along the way are the challenges we face and the responsibilities we accept. The path is not always easy; some of us lose our way. We question the meaning of life. But when we walk the Good Pathwhen we commit to values and fulfill our goalsthe meaning of life