Braiding sweetgrass / Robin Wall Kimmerer.
2013
E98.P5 K56 2013
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Title
Braiding sweetgrass / Robin Wall Kimmerer.
Edition
First edition.
ISBN
9781571313355 (hardback ; alkaline paper)
9781571318718
1571313354 (hardback ; alkaline paper)
9781571313560 (paperback)
1571313567 (paperback)
1571318712
9781571318718
1571313354 (hardback ; alkaline paper)
9781571313560 (paperback)
1571313567 (paperback)
1571318712
Published
Minneapolis, Minnesota : Milkweed Editions, [2013]
Copyright
©2013
Language
English
Description
x, 390 pages ; 23 cm
Call Number
E98.P5 K56 2013
System Control No.
(OCoLC)829743464
Summary
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 land, consider plants and animals to be our oldest teachers. In Braiding Sweetgrass, Kimmerer brings these two lenses of knowing together to reveal what it means to see humans as "the younger brothers of creation." As she explores these themes she circles toward a central argument: the awakening of a wider ecological consciousness requires the acknowledgement and celebration of our reciprocal relationship with the world. Once we begin to listen for the languages of other beings, we can begin to understand the innumerable life-giving gifts the world provides us and learn to offer our thanks, our care, and our own gifts in return--From back cover.
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.
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.
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