Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants (PB) Kindness as well as academic achievement

as well as academic achievement

Tanya Senk

Audience: Ages 3-5

when educational systems designed for the mainstream have relegated First Nations students to the sidelines

and poetry celebrates the rich diversity of writing by Native American women today

Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants (PB) Kindness as well as academic achievementBraiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants is poised to be a classic of traditional knowledge writing. As a botanist, Robin Wall Kimmerer asks questions of nature with the tools of science. As a member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation, Kimmerer draws on her life as an Indigenous scientist, a mother, and a woman, and shows how other living beings such as asters and goldenrod, strawberries and squash,