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Braiding sweetgrass : indigenous wisdom, scientific knowledge, and the teachings of plants  Cover Image Book Book

Braiding sweetgrass : indigenous wisdom, scientific knowledge, and the teachings of plants / Robin Wall Kimmerer.

Record details

  • ISBN: 1571311777
  • ISBN: 9781571311771
  • Physical Description: xx, 382 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
  • Edition: Second hardcover edition.
  • Publisher: Minneapolis, Minnesota : Milkweed Editions, 2020.

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Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references.
Formatted Contents Note:
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.
Summary, etc.:
"As 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.""-- Provided by publisher.
Subject: Kimmerer, Robin Wall.
Indian philosophy.
Ethnoecology.
Philosophy of nature.
Human ecology > Philosophy.
Nature > Effect of human beings on.
Human-plant relationships.
Botany > Philosophy.
Potawatomi Indians > Biography.
Potawatomi Indians > Social life and customs.
Botany.
Indians of North America.
Philosophy.
Nordamerika
Genre: Biographies.

Available copies

  • 16 of 25 copies available at Bibliomation. (Show)
  • 1 of 1 copy available at Hall Memorial Library - Ellington.

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  • 1 current hold with 25 total copies.
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Hall Memorial Library - Ellington 305.8 KIMMERER (Text) 34037150842278 Adult New Nonfiction Available -

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