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  Title

  Braiding sweetgrass : [indigenous wisdom, scientific knowledge, and the teachings of plants] First paperback edition.

  Author

  Kimmerer, Robin Wall  

  Publisher:

  Milkweed Editions,

  Pub date:

  2013.

  Description:

  x, 390 pages ;

  ISBN:

  1571313567

  Item info:

  4 copies currently available - Twin Hickory Library, Sandston Library, Tuckahoe Library, and Varina Library.
  

  Number of holds:

  1

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  Braiding sweetgrass : [indigenous wisdom, scientific knowledge, and the teachings of plants] First paperback edition.
  Kimmerer, Robin Wall
  

  Personal Author:

  Kimmerer, Robin Wall

  Title:

  Braiding sweetgrass : [indigenous wisdom, scientific knowledge, and the teachings of plants] / Robin Wall Kimmerer.

  Edition:

  First paperback edition.

  Publication Info:

  Minneapolis, Minnesota : Milkweed Editions, 2013.

  Physical descrip:

  x, 390 pages ; 22 cm.

  General Note:

  "Indigenous wisdom, scientific knowledge, and the teachings of plants" --Cover.

  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 adamage -- Shkitagen: People of the Seventh Fire -- Defeating Windigo -- Epilogue: Returning the Gift.

  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.

  Held by:

  GAYTON GLEN-ALLEN TWNHICKORY SANDSTON TUCKAHOE LIBBIEMILL VARINAAREA FAAREA

  Personal subject:

  Kimmerer, Robin Wall.

  Subject term:

  Botany--Philosophy.

  Subject term:

  Human ecology--Philosophy.

  Subject term:

  Human-plant relationships.

  Subject term:

  Indian philosophy.

  Subject term:

  Ethnoecology

  Subject term:

  Nature--Effect of human beings on.

  Subject term:

  Philosophy of nature.

  Subject term:

  Potawatomi Indians--Social life and customs.