Author Michael K. Bender announces the publication of his latest book, "The Land Remembers: Beyond the Shadows of the First Footsteps-Indigenous Peoples, Ancient History, and the Search for Truth."
CAIRO AND NEW YORK / ACCESS Newswire / December 26, 2025 / This isn’t your typical history book. It’s a journey-one that begins in the basement of a Chinese museum, staring at 3,000-year-old oracle bones, and leads to 23,000-year-old human footprints preserved in New Mexico’s White Sands. Along the way, Bender weaves together his father’s photographs of ancient rock art in South Africa, conversations with Indigenous knowledge keepers, cutting-edge genetic research, and legal battles that are reshaping how we understand sovereignty and justice.
What makes this book different? It’s both deeply insightful AND genuinely entertaining. Bender writes it the way he’d tell these stories to a friend over coffee-conversational, accessible, and full of "wait, what?" moments that make readers see American history in an entirely new light. Readers will discover how the Haudenosaunee Confederacy influenced the U.S. Constitution, why a 9,000-year-old skeleton sparked a 20-year legal battle, and what Indigenous fire management can teach us about climate resilience.
Drawing on his experience as an author (the Shadows series, including "Shadows of Innovation" and "Shadows of Brilliance"), international business, and as a former U.S. Foreign Service Officer, Bender has crafted a narrative that bridges worlds: science and story, past and present, and academic rigor and page-turning readability. This book features living Indigenous voices alongside archaeological evidence, legal analysis alongside oral traditions-all woven into a compelling narrative that challenges everything readers thought they knew.
As one Indigenous elder reminds us in these pages: "The land remembers. Stories remember. And sometimes, the earth itself speaks louder than any history book."
‘The Land Remembers" is essential reading for educators, students, policymakers, and anyone who loves compelling nonfiction that both educates and moves. It’s a book that will change how readers see the ground beneath their feet-and the stories we tell about who we are.
Available now from Amazon, Barnes and Noble, and Ingram Spark
SOURCE: MKBender.com
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