xx, 382 pages :colour illustrations ;23 cm
Includes bibliographical references.
Planting sweetgrass --Tending sweetgrass --Picking sweetgrass --Braiding sweetgrass --Burning sweetgrass --Epilogue: Returning the gift.
"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 lenses of knowledge together to take us on 'a journey that is every bit as mythic as it is scientific, as sacred as it is historical, as clever as it is wise.'"--Provided by publisher.
1.Kimmerer, Robin Wall.1.Botany--Philosophy.2.Ethnoecology.3.Human ecology--Philosophy.4.Human-plant relationships.5.Nature--Effect of human beings on.6.Philosophy of nature.7.Indigenous philosophy.8.Potawatomi--Biography.9.Potawatomi--Social life and customs.