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• Title:Braiding sweetgrass : indigenous wisdom, scientific knowledge and the teachings of plants / Robin Wall Kimmerer.
  
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• Author/Creator:Kimmerer, Robin Wall.
  
• Other Contributors/Collections:Ebooks Corporation.
  
• Published/Created:Minneapolis, Minnesota : Milkweed Editions, 2013.
  

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  • Call Number: E98.P5
    
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• Library of Congress Subjects: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.
  
• Edition:First edition.
  
• Description:1 online resource.
  
• Summary:"An inspired weaving of indigenous knowledge, plant science, and personal narrative from a distinguished professor of science and a Native American whose previous book, Gathering Moss, was awarded the John Burroughs Medal for outstanding nature writing. 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"-- Provided by publisher.
  "As a leading researcher in the field of biology, Robin Wall Kimmerer understands the delicate state of our world. But as an active member of the Potawatomi nation, she senses and relates to the world through a way of knowing far older than any science. In Braiding Sweetgrass, she intertwines these two modes of awareness--the analytic and the emotional, the scientific and the cultural--to ultimately reveal a path toward healing the rift that grows between people and nature. The woven essays that construct this book bring people back into conversation with all that is green and growing; a universe that never stopped speaking to us, even when we forgot how to listen"-- Provided by publisher.
  
• Reproduction note:Electronic reproduction. Perth, W.A. Available via World Wide Web.
  
• Notes:Subtitle from dust jacket.
  Includes bibliographical references (pages 387-388).
  Description based on print version record.
  
• ISBN:1571318712 (electronic bk.)
  9781571318718 (electronic bk.)
  9781571313355 (hbk. : acid-free paper)
  1571313354 (hbk. : acid-free paper)
  
• Contents:Machine generated contents note: Planting Sweetgrass
  Skywoman Falling
  Council of Pecans
  Gift of Strawberries
  Offering
  Asters and Goldenrod
  Learning the Grammar of Animacy
  Tending Sweetgrass
  Maple Sugar Moon
  Witch Hazel
  Mother's Work
  Consolation of Water Lilies
  Allegiance to Gratitude
  Picking Sweetgrass
  Epiphany in the Beans
  Three Sisters
  Wisgaak Gokpenagen: A Black Ash Basket
  Mishkos Kenomagwen: The Teachings of Grass
  Maple Nation: A Citizenship Guide
  Honorable Harvest
  Braiding Sweetgrass
  In the Footsteps of Nanabozho: Becoming Indigenous to Place
  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
  Sacred and the Superfund
  People of Corn, People of Light
  Collateral Damage
  Shkitagen: People of the Seventh Fire
  Defeating Windigo.