A Potawatomi botanist braids Indigenous wisdom with science, inviting readers into reciprocity with the living world.
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A Potawatomi botanist braids Indigenous wisdom with science, inviting readers into reciprocity with the living world.
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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 lenses of knowledge together to show 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...
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Sexual content
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No romantic or sexual content
Violence & gore
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Historical violence and animal death referenced without graphic detail
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No significant profanity
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Religious content
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Indigenous ceremonies, sacred plants, and spiritual ecology are central
Magic & witchcraft
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No fantasy magic present
Occult / demonology
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Political content
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Central critique of colonization and call for ecological reciprocity
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Abuse & suffering
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Colonization, genocide, racism, and cultural loss discussed throughout
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