The First Blade of Sweetgrass Grandmothers D Nelson (Standing Rock Sioux)

D Nelson (Standing Rock Sioux) tells the story of Buffalo Bird Girl's childhood growing up in this traditional lifestyle

the pack basket

Thanking Creator

and Health and Healing

and song from the 1990s period of Aboriginal Peoples involvement at Oka

The First Blade of Sweetgrass Grandmothers D Nelson (Standing Rock Sioux)In this Own Voices Native American picture book, a modern Wabanaki girl is excited to accompany her grandmother for the first time to harvest sweetgrass for basket making. She must overcome her impatience while learning to distinguish sweetgrass from other salt marsh grasses, but slowly the spirit and peace of her surroundings speak to her, and she gathers sweetgrass as her ancestors have done for centuries, leaving the first blade she sees to grow