Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants (PB) Kindness By understanding how healthy communities

By understanding how healthy communities were created in the past

members rise and announce their intention to speak

its students were driven to its doors not by Indian agents

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

Audience: Ages 3-5

Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants (PB) Kindness By understanding how healthy communitiesBraiding 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,