98 pages 3 hours read

Robin Wall Kimmerer

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

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2013

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Emily Carr University of Art and Design’s shared resources from a study group on Braiding Sweetgrass.

In this illustrated volume, Wendy Makoons Geniusz—an Anishinaabe who grew up in a household practicing traditional medicine—contrasts the story of her tribe as told by colonialists versus its story as represented from within.

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A talk by author Robin Wall Kimmerer, PhD for the American Museum of Natural History’s Center for Biodiversity and Conservation.

A Natural History Institute conversation with Robin Wall Kimmerer. 

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

Robin Wall Kimmerer