Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants
Drawing on her life as an indigenous scientist, and as a woman, Kimmerer shows how other living beings―asters and goldenrod, strawberries and squash, salamanders, algae, and sweetgrass―offer us gifts and lessons, even if we've forgotten how to hear their voices. In reflections that range from the creation of Turtle Island to the forces that threaten its flourishing today, she circles toward a central argument: that the awakening of ecological consciousness requires the acknowledgment and celebration of our reciprocal relationship with the rest of the living world.
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Stories that we don't typically hear of the relationship of the American original people and the land we should all love.
The message of this book is beautiful and timely. I most enjoyed when the author was actively doing something - teaching her class, harvesting maple sap, weaving black ash baskets, rescuing salamanders, cleaning her pond. But much of what she wrote was repetitive and overly wordy. I would have preferred that she told the unfolding of her career and life experiences in chronological order - she skips around so much - from place to place and time frame to time frame. It was hard to get into a flow of reading this book.
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