Main entry:

Kimmerer, Robin Wall, author.

Title & Author:

Braiding sweetgrass / Robin Wall Kimmerer.

Edition:

First edition.

Publication:

Minneapolis, Minnesota : Milkweed Editions, 2013.
©2013

Description:

x, 390 pages ; 23 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 387-388).
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 ; Acknowledgments.

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 acknowledgment 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.

Resources:
Additional Information at Google Books

ISBN:

9781571313355 (hardback)
1571313354 (hardback)
9781571313560 (paperback)
1571313567 (paperback)
(ebook)
9781571318718
(ebook)
1571318712

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.
Indian philosophy
Potawatomi Indians
Indigenes Volk
Naturphilosophie
Naturverständnis
Ökologie
Botanik
Potawatomi
North America

Form/genre:

Autobiography
autobiographies (literary works)
Autobiographies
Biographies

Holdings:

Location: Library main 316030
Call No.: 316030
Copy: 1
Status: Available