Braiding sweetgrass for young adults : indigenous wisdom, scientific knowledge, and the teachings of plants
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- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2022
- Author
- Wall Kimmerer, Robin
- Publisher
- Minneapolis : Zest Books
- Call Number
- 07.2 W15s
- Author
- Wall Kimmerer, Robin
- Responsibility
- Adapted by Monique Gray Smith ; Illustrations by Nicole Neidhardt
- Publisher
- Minneapolis : Zest Books
- Published Date
- 2022
- Physical Description
- 303 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
- Abstract
- Botanist Robin Wall Kimmerer's best-selling book Braiding Sweetgrass is adapted for a young adult audience by children's author Monique Gray Smith, bringing Indigenous wisdom, scientific knowledge, and the lessons of plant life to a new generation.-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents
- Meeting sweetgrass. An invitation to remember ; Skywoman falling ; Wiingaashk -- Planting sweetgrass. The council of pecans ; The gift of strawberries ; An offering ; Asters and goldenrod -- Tending sweetgrass. Maple sugar moon ; Witch hazel ; Allegiance to gratitude -- Picking sweetgrass.Epiphany in the beans ; The three sisters ; Wisgaak Gokpenagen : a black ash basket ; Mishkos Kenomagwen : the teachings of grass ; Maple nation : a citizenship guide ; The honorable harvest -- Braiding sweetgrass. In the footsteps of Nanabozho : becoming indigenous to place ; Sitting in a circle ; Burning cascade head ; Putting down roots ; Old-growth children -- Burning sweetgrass. Windigo footprints People of corn, people of light ; Shkitagen : People of the seventh fire ; Defeating Windigo.
- ISBN
- 9781728458991
- Accession Number
- P2023.03
- Call Number
- 07.2 W15s
- Collection
- Archives Library
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