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Main Title Braiding sweetgrass /
Author Kimmerer, Robin Wall,
Publisher Milkweed Editions,
Year Published 2013
OCLC Number 829743464
ISBN 1571313354; 9781571313355; 1571313567; 9781571313560
Subjects 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 ; Nature--Essays ; Nature--Plants--General ; Science--Life Sciences--Botany ; Indians, North American ; SOCIAL SCIENCE--Ethnic Studies--Native American Studies ; Indigenes Volk ; Naturphilosophie ; Naturverstñdnis ; èOkologie ; Botanik ; Indigenous peoples--Ecology
Additional Subjects Kimmerer, Robin Wall
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EJAM  E98.P5K56 2013b AIAN Region 3 Library/Philadelphia, PA 12/01/2014
ESAM  E98.P5K56 2013 Region 10 Library/Seattle,WA 10/06/2021
Edition First edition.
Collation x, 390 pages ; 23 cm
Notes Includes bibliographical references (pages 387-388).
Contents Notes 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. 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--From back cover.
Place Published Minneapolis, Minnesota
PUB Date Free Form ©2013
BIB Level m
Medium unmediated
Content text
Carrier volume
Cataloging Source RDA
LCCN 2013012563
Merged OCLC records 890951477; 896826735; 897711255; 926095205; 1024099656; 1061103878; 1105931610; 1175691366; 1175691885; 1175692109; 1175693884; 1175694695; 1175720264; 1175732739; 1201632727; 1201872454; 1201880873; 1201947169; 1202019669
OCLC Time Stamp 20210928213025
Language eng
Origin OCLC
Type CAT
OCLC Rec Leader 06573cam 2201009 i 45010