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• Title:Braiding sweetgrass / Robin Wall Kimmerer.
  
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• Author/Creator:Kimmerer, Robin Wall, author.
  
• Other Contributors/Collections:Xwi7xwa Collection
  
• Published/Created:Minneapolis, Minnesota : Milkweed Editions, 2013.
  

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  • Location:XWI7XWA LIBRARY stacksWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: N K56 B73 2013
    
  • Number of Items:2
    
  • Status:c.2 In transit to XWI7XWA LIBRARY circulation desk 04-22-2024
    c.3 On loan - Due on 06-12-2024
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Kimmerer, Robin Wall.
  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.
  
• Medical Subjects: Botany.
  Philosophy.
  Nature.
  
• Edition:First edition.
  
• Description:x, 390 pages ; 23 cm
  
• 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.
  
• Local note:First Nations author - Citizen Potawatomi Nation
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 387-388).
  
• ISBN:9781571313355 (hardback : alkaline paper)
  1571313354 (hardback : alkaline paper)
  9781571313560 (paperback)
  1571313567 (paperback)
  
• Contents: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.