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Title

Braiding sweetgrass / Robin Wall Kimmerer.

Author

Kimmerer, Robin Wall

Publication

• Minneapolis, Minnesota : Milkweed Editions, 2013.
• ©2013

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Details

Description

x, 390 pages; 23 cm

Summary

As a botanist and professor of plant ecology, the author 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 the Americas, consider plants and animals to be our oldest teachers. In this book, she 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. -- Description from back cover.

Alternative Title

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

Subject

• Kimmerer, Robin Wall
• Indian philosophy > North America
• 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
• Indians of North America
• Philosophy
• Botany
• Nature > Essays
• Nature > Plants > General
• Science > Life Sciences > Botany
• Indians, North American
• Nature
• Native peoples > Ecology
• Ethnoécologie
• Philosophie de la nature
• Écologie humaine > Philosophie
• Êtres humains > Influence sur la nature
• Relations homme-plante
• Potawatomi > Biographies
• Potawatomi > Mœurs et coutumes
• Peuples autochtones > Amérique du Nord
• Philosophie
• Botanique
• philosophy
• botany
• SCIENCE > Life Sciences > Botany
• SOCIAL SCIENCE > Ethnic Studies > Native American Studies
• NATURE > Essays
• NATURE > Plants > General
• Botany > Philosophy
• Indian philosophy
• Potawatomi Indians
• Potawatomi Indians > Social life and customs
• Indigenes Volk
• Naturphilosophie
• Naturverständnis
• Ökologie
• Botanik
• Potawatomi
• North America

Genre/Form

• Autobiography
• autobiographies (literary works)
• Autobiographies
• Biographies
• Autobiographies.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 387-388).

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

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 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 -- Notes ; Sources ; Acknowledgements.

ISBN

• 9781571313355
• 1571313354
• 9781571313560
• 1571313567
• 9781571318718 (canceled/invalid)
• 1571318712 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

2013012563

OCLC

• 829743464
• SCSB-12064525

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library