The Children of the Morning Light: Wampanoag Tales as Told By Manitonquat
Eleven stories based on the oral traditions of the Wampanoag tribe of southern Massachusetts recount the origins of the world, the ancient history of the Wampanoag, and the ways in which the spirit Maushop aided the early humans. – Manitonquat, 1994
Wampanoag Morning: Stories from the Land of the People of the First Light Before the English Invasion
Manitonquat, 2008
The Original Instructions: Reflections of an Elder on the Teachings of the Elders, Adapting Ancient Wisdom to the Twenty-First Century
“Human beings have forgotten their instructions” That is how many of the Native elders responded to Manitonquat when he traveled the continent over forty years ago seeking answers to the questions “What is wrong with people? Why is there war, violence, oppression, greed, injustice, poverty, indifference and destruction of the environment?” Sitting with and listening to many elders of First Nations from all parts of North America, he began to form a clearer idea of what they often called “the Original Instructions”.
Manitonquat, 2009
Have You Lost Your Tribe?
Paradise on Earth—your ideal life—is not just a dream. This book shows it’s already being built in communities worldwide, where people are creating lives of connection, sustainability, and joy. Manitonquat, a Wampanoag elder, shares the ancient wisdom of the circle—an egalitarian way of living that supported humanity for thousands of years. In a world dominated by inequality and environmental destruction, more people are choosing to live simply, cooperatively, and close to the Earth. This book invites you to join them. The time has come—for a new way of living, for a new vision of humankind. It is time for the Age of Flowers.
Manitonquat, 2011
The Joy of Caring for Children in The Circle Way: It Takes a Child to Raise a Village
Every interaction with a child shapes the future. Drawing on First Nations traditions and The Circle Way method, this book calls us to center children in our lives. In a world that often devalues them, Manitonquat urges us to restore their joy, curiosity, and connection—enriching their lives and our own.
Manitonquat, 2015
Birch Cottage: and 36 Views of Mount Monadnock
Like Thoreau’s journals come the poems of this book. Birch Cottage comprises a number of poems written over many years in a small hand-made house deep in the woods of southern New Hampshire, in the Souhegan valley and the region of Mt. Monadnock.
Manitonquat, 2016
Grandfather Speaks: A Book of Verse
This book contains poems that issue mainly from the poet’s experience and perspective as a First Nation Wampanoag member. Raised and educated by his non-native mother, he was also strongly influenced by his Wampanoag grandfather’s stories and knowledge of the history of his people. In his thirties he began to travel to learn from elders of nations that lay distant from civilization in Canada and the north and southwest and found from them the wisdom he had found nowhere else. The elders asked him to go where he might be invited and make this wisdom available to all who asked for it, and for five decades, he has continued to travel wherever invited and speak to all who wish to listen.
Manitonquat, 2018
