Braiding sweetgrass
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Braiding sweetgrass

By Kimmerer, Robin Wall, author.

Published 2013 by Milkweed Editions, Minneapolis, Minnesota

ISBN 9781571313355

Bib Id 2073994

Edition First edition.

Description x, 390 pages ; 23 cm

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06101cam a2200745 i 4500
LCCN
2013-012563
ISBN
9781571313355 alkaline paper)
1571313354 alkaline paper)
9781571313560 paperback $18.00
1571313567 (paperback)
Call #
305.897 K
Title
Braiding sweetgrass
Edition
First edition.
Publication Information
2013 by Milkweed Editions, Minneapolis, Minnesota :
Description
x, 390 pages ; 23 cm
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 387-388).
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.
Summary
"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"--

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