Braiding sweetgrass : Indigenous wisdom, scientific knowledge, and the teachings of plants / Robin Wall Kimmerer.
2013
E98.P5 K56 2013eb
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Title
Braiding sweetgrass : Indigenous wisdom, scientific knowledge, and the teachings of plants / Robin Wall Kimmerer.
Edition
First edition.
ISBN
9781571318718 (electronic book)
1571318712 (electronic book)
9781306435529 (electronic book)
1306435528 (electronic book)
9781571313355 (hardback)
1571313354 (hardback)
1571313567 (paperback)
9781571313560 (paperback)
1571313567
9781571313560
1571318712 (electronic book)
9781306435529 (electronic book)
1306435528 (electronic book)
9781571313355 (hardback)
1571313354 (hardback)
1571313567 (paperback)
9781571313560 (paperback)
1571313567
9781571313560
Published
Minneapolis, Minnesota : Milkweed Editions, 2013.
Copyright
©2013
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (x, 390 pages)
Other Standard Identifiers
9781571313560
Call Number
E98.P5 K56 2013eb
Distributor No.
MWT11783580
System Control No.
(OCoLC)868925013
Summary
"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" (Elizabeth Gilbert). Drawing on her life as an Indigenous scientist, a mother, and a woman, Kimmerer shows how other living beings--asters and goldenrod, strawberries and squash, salamanders, algae, and sweetgrass--offer us gifts and lessons, even if we've forgotten how to hear their voices. In a rich braid of reflections that range from the creation of Turtle Island to the forces that threaten its flourishing today, she circles toward a central argument: that the awakening of a wider ecological consciousness requires the acknowledgment and celebration of our reciprocal relationship with the rest of the living world. For only when we can hear the languages of other beings will we be capable of understanding the generosity of the earth, and learn to give our own gifts in return."-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 387-388).
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.
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.
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Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified]: HathiTrust Digital Library. 2022.
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Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. (http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212)
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Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on April 19, 2022).
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