Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants

Title: Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
Creator: Robin Wall-Kimmerer (IA-Citizen Potawatomi Nation) See all items with this value
Date: 2013
Bibliographic Citation: Kimmerer, Robin Wall. 2015. Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants. Milkweed Edi
annotates: The author braids together her story, Indigenous Knowledge, and scientific knowledge to provide a new understanding of nature holistically sustaining humans and humans in nature. Providing hope and action for addressing environmental degradation and human despair, the author tells us, “To be native to a place we must learn to speak its language” (Pg 48). We are asked to consider (Pg 112), “What would it be like to be raised on gratitude, to speak to the natural world as a member of the democracy of species, to raise a pledge of interdependence?” The focus on reciprocity with the land, “Living by the precepts of the Honorable Harvest – to take only what is given, to use it well, to be grateful for the gift, and to reciprocate the gift…” (Pg 20-21) would lead to healing nature/humans.
Subject: Indigenous Perspective See all items with this value; Indigenous Knowledge See all items with this value; Ethnobotany See all items with this value
Temporal Coverage: Postcontact See all items with this value; Contemporary See all items with this value