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Book

Braiding sweetgrass for young adults : indigenous wisdom, scientific knowledge, and the teachings of plants

Call Number

  • 304.2 K499 TEEN (CEN, EAS, MBL, WSQ)

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Publication Information

Minneapolis : Zest Books, [2022]

Physical Description

303 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Audience

Grades 7-9 Zest Books.

Summary

"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"--

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.

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