Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants

Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of PlantsAs a botanist, Robin Wall Kimmerer has been trained to ask questions of nature with the tools of science. As a member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation, she embraces the notion that plants and animals are our oldest teachers. In Braiding Sweetgrass, Kimmerer brings these two lenses of knowledge together to take us on "a journey that is every bit as mythic as it is scientific, as sacred as it is historical, as clever as it is wise" (Elizabeth Gilbert).

he discusses the interrelationship between language and culture

such as multiculturalism

environmental justice is of heightened importance to Indigenous communities

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and an inspiring letter to children from Sharice Davids

giving us an accessible entry point into a vital facet of Indian history

For a thousand generations

Dakota women's aesthetics

Sully evoked multiple and simultaneous perspectives of time and space

but this year it coincides with a solar eclipse

and the difficult struggles and profound emotional satisfactions the author experienced in the course of one twelve-month period—from a winter pregnancy through a spring and summer of new motherhood to her return to writing in the fall

the first factory located near the Turtle Mountain Reservation in rural North Dakota