MOTHER TREES FOR HUMANITY: The “INUP” (Maya) & “OLIVE”(Palestine)

Since the beginning, we humans have been intimately linked to trees, sharing the breath of Mother Earth, the inhale-exhale cycle of carbon and oxygen. Behold how images of trees are featured as cover art for titles representing separate genocides four decades apart: to the left, In the Arms of Inup, as told by Indigenous Storyteller and Genocide Survivor Jeremias Tecu, and captured in words by Eve Mills Allen, representing the Mayan genocide during Guatemala’s civil war, circa 1966 to 1996; and to the right, Beneath Gaza’s Stars as depicted by the Indigenous Gaza-based poet, Heba Elnaami, representing an active genocide to this day…

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