Braiding sweetgrass / Robin Wall Kimmerer.
As a botanist and professor of plant ecology, Robin Wall Kimmerer has spent a career learning how to ask questions of nature using the tools of science. As a Potawatomi woman, she learned from elders, family, and history that the Potawatomi, as well as a majority of other cultures indigenous to this...
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Minneapolis, Minnesota :
Milkweed Editions,
[2013]
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Table of Contents:
- Planting Sweetgrass. Skywoman falling
- The council of pecans
- The gift of strawberries
- An offering
- Asters and goldenrod
- Learning the grammar of animacy
- Tending Sweetgrass. Maple sugar moon
- Witch hazel
- A mother's work
- The consolation of water lilies
- Allegiance to gratitude
- Picking Sweetgrass. Epiphany in the beans
- The three sisters
- Wisgaak Gokpenagen : a black ash basket
- Mishkos Kenomagwen : the teachings of grass
- Maple nation : a citizenship guide
- The honorable harvest
- Braiding Sweetgrass. In the footsteps of Nanabozho : becoming indigenous to place
- The sound of silverbells
- Sitting in a circle
- Burning cascade head
- Putting down roots
- Umbilicaria : the belly button of the world
- Old-growth children
- Witness to the rain
- Burning Sweetgrass. Windigo footprints
- The sacred and the superfund
- People of corn, people of light
- Collateral damage
- Shkitagen : People of the seventh fire
- Defeating Windigo
- Epilogue: Returning the gift.