TY  - BOOK
AU  - Kimmerer,Robin Wall
TI  - Braiding sweetgrass: indigenous wisdom, scientific knowledge and the teachings of plants 
SN  - 9780141991955 (paperback)
U1  - 305.897 23
PY  - 2020///
CY  - [London]
PB  - Penguin Books
KW  - Kimmerer, Robin Wall.
KW  - Indigenous peoples
KW  - Ecology
KW  - Ethnoecology
KW  - fast
KW  - Indian philosophy
KW  - Philosophy of nature
KW  - Human ecology
KW  - Philosophy
KW  - Nature
KW  - Effect of human beings on
KW  - Human-plant relationships
KW  - Botany
KW  - Potawatomi Indians
KW  - Social life and customs
N1  - first published by Milkweed Editions 2013; Includes bibliographical references
N2  - As a botanist, Robin Wall Kimmerer has been trained to ask questions of nature with the tools of science. As a member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation, she embraces the notion that plants and animals are our oldest teachers. In Braiding Sweetgrass, Kimmerer brings these two ways of knowledge together. Drawing on her life as an indigenous scientist, a mother, and 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 a rich braid of 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 a wider ecological consciousness requires the acknowledgment and celebration of our reciprocal relationship with the rest of the living world. For only when we can hear the languages of other beings will we be capable of understanding the generosity of the earth, and learn to give our own gifts in return
ER  -