Braiding Sweetgrass PDF - Overview
Braiding Sweetgrass Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants is a 2013 nonfiction book by Potawatomi professor Robin Wall Kimmerer, about the role of Indigenous knowledge as an alternative or complementary approach to Western mainstream scientific methodologies. Explores reciprocal relationships between humans and the land, with a focus on the role of plants and botany in both Native American and Western traditions.
Braiding Sweetgrass Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants is about botany and the relationship to land in Native American traditions. Kimmerer, who is an enrolled member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation, writes about her personal experiences working with plants and reuniting with her people’s cultural traditions. She also presents the history of the plants and botany from a scientific perspective.
Braiding Sweetgrass
Contents of Braiding Sweetgrass
- Preface
- 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 Gok Penagen: 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
- Notes
- Sources
- Acknowledgments
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