Braiding Sweetgrass

by having enough to give away. Hoarding the gift, we become constipated with wealth, bloated with possessions, too heavy to join ...

remember the gifts, and say thank you. They carry the lesson, passed to us by our ancestors, that the generosity of the land com ...

someone broke into their home to take whatever he wanted. We would be outraged at the moral trespass. So it should be for the ea ...

whirl of butterfly shawls, with nodding plumes of egrets, jeweled with the glitter of a phosphorescent wave. When the song pause ...

A NOTE ON THE TREATMENT OF PLANT NAMES We accept with nary a thought that the names of people are capitalized. To write “george ...

A NOTE ON THE TREATMENT OF INDIGENOUS LANGUAGE The Potawatomi and Anishinaabe languages are a reflection of the land and the peo ...

A NOTE ON INDIGENOUS STORIES I am a listener and have been listening to stories told around me for longer than I care to admit. ...

SOURCES Allen, Paula Gunn. Grandmothers of the Light: A Medicine Woman’s Sourcebook. Boston: Beacon Press, 1991. Awiakta, Marilo ...

Press, 2011. Nelson, Melissa K., ed. Original Instructions: Indigenous Teachings for a Sustainable Future. Rochester: Bear and C ...

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS I owe a debt of gratitude for the lap of my Sitka Spruce grandma, the shelter of White Willow, the Balsam Fir be ...

examples, including my Anishinaabe relations Stewart King, Barbara Wall, Wally Meshigaud, Jim Thunder, Justin Neely, Kevin Finne ...

Many thanks to those who make these times of solitude and support possible. Waewaenen and special thanks are offered to my welco ...

ABOUT THE AUTHOR Robin Wall Kimmerer is a mother, scientist, decorated professor, and enrolled member of the Citizen Potowatomi ...