In 2012, on a damp Sunday night, two rain-soaked women knocked on the door of a Pacheedaht man in Port Renfrew. They asked him to come see the Walbran. He was in his seventies, unwell, and by his own account a “last-class underdog.” Elder Bill Jones’s story, told with writer Karen Moe over 161 recorded conversations, isn’t what you might expect from a protest book. In Listening Once Again to Our Great Mother, available now at Dundurn Press, he goes back to his grandfather Charlie, who began telling him the stories of their ancestors when he was fourteen and home from the Port Alberni Indian Residential School. …The book isn’t flawless. …But what it gets right matters far more. Elizabeth May calls it “the essential teaching for our time,” and Suzanne Simard says it belongs in every Canadian school. They’re right. Old growth isn’t a resource.