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

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Milkweed Editions published a special hardback edition this year; it is a treasure that will stay in my personal library and will be passed down to family. We are experiencing delays with deliveries to many countries, but in most cases local services have now resumed.

She has a strong voice (the audiobook is read by the author and very well done) and a story worth listening to.

In such a culture, Everyone knows that gifts will follow the circle of reciprocity and flow back to you again.

My grandfather also helped with my sister’s anaemia (by boiling guava leaves in water and giving her the liquid to drink - this helps to replenish iron levels). Science can be black and white; it can be data driven, practical and cold: it’s all about observation without really seeing and without really understanding. After reading this, I feel compelled to observe nature more closely, plant vegetables, look at possible relationships between plants, tap maple trees for syrup, something!In the end, if Kimmerer thinks that her book is in any way going to help white Americans become Indigenous, which is the implication of the chapters in part four, Braiding Sweetgrass, she’s fooling herself, not to mention her readers. Beautifully bound with a new cover featuring an engraving by Tony Drehfal, this edition includes a bookmark ribbon, a deckled edge, and five brilliantly colored illustrations by artist Nate Christopherson; this is a book you are going to want to gift - either to yourself or those you love. Radical anthropology on “ human economies” (in contrast to “market economies”): Debt: The First 5,000 Years (also heard good reviews for Sacred Economics: Money, Gift, and Society in the Age of Transition). I give detailed breakdowns of nonfiction, but this is a book of stories for you to experience… I dream of a world guided by a lens of stories rooted in the revelations of science and framed with an indigenous worldview—­stories in which matter and spirit are both given voice. Most purchases from business sellers are protected by the Consumer Contract Regulations 2013 which give you the right to cancel the purchase within 14 days after the day you receive the item.