Robin Wall Kimmerer

Drawing from her experiences as an Indigenous scientist, botanist Robin Wall Kimmerer demonstrated how all living things--from strawberries and witch hazel to water lilies and lichen--provide us with gifts and lessons every day in her best-selling book Braiding Sweetgrass. Adapted for young adults by Monique Gray Smith, this new edition reinforces how wider ecological understanding stems from listening to the earth's oldest teachers: the plants around us. With informative sidebars, reflection questions, and art from illustrator Nicole Neidhardt, Braiding Sweetgrass for Young Adults brings Indigenous wisdom, scientific knowledge, and the lessons of plant life to a new generation.

A Guide to the Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants

Braiding Sweetgrass for Young Adults

Sophia 

Native scholar Greg Cajete has written that in Indigenous ways of knowing we understand a thing only when we understand it with all four aspects of our being: mind, body, emotion, and spirit. When I began my training as a scientist, I came to understand that science privileges only one, possibly two, of those ways of knowing: mind and body. But it is a whole human being, all four aspects of us, who finds the beautiful path.

When we call a place by name, it is transformed from wilderness to homeland.

Braiding Sweetgrass for Young Adults A Guide to the Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants

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