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This is a book that unites what has been foolishly separated. Biological science and indigenous plant knowledge. Our relationship to the earth and our treatment of it. The modern world and the traditional. Words and actions. Giving and receiving. Kimmerer is a scientist, a professor of biology, and also a member of one of North America's First Nations. She writes out of love, and pain, and deep knowledge. This book changed and enriched the way I look at the natural world. We HAVE to come to our senses, heal our dialogue with our planet, and the great good sense of this book can help.


"In our language, it is called wiingaashk, the sweet-smelling hair of Mother Earth. Inhale it in and you begin to recollect things you didn't realize you'd overlooked" (p. x). Interlacing Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants, by Robin Wall Kimmerer, meshes strands of indigenous methods for knowing, logical learning, and an Anishinabekwe researcher's would like to unite in approaches to serve the earth through articles that make a lavishly finished entirety. Kimmerer composes with the mastery of a researcher and the writing of an artist to make a perusing knowledge through universes of understanding that feels like you're enclosed by a cover of exposition. 

Kimmerer channels logical information through indigenous story and insight about the common world. Exposition titles and make mirror the many-sided weaving of the book: "Skywoman Falling", "The Council of Pecans", "Maple Sugar Moon", and "The Consolation of Water Lilies". She carries the old knowledge to our contemporary world and offers the conversation starter, "Can we as a whole comprehend the Skywoman story not as an ancient rarity from an earlier time yet as directions for the future?" (p 9). 

Kimmerer shares her intense feeling of magnificence with the physical scene, yet additionally the semantic. In the paper "Learning the Grammar of Animacy" she states, "My first taste of a missing language was the word Puhpowee on my tongue" and her awe to find it signifies, "the power which makes mushrooms push up from the earth medium-term" (p.48). With the disclosure of Puhpowee, Kimmerer leaves on an adventure to get familiar with the language that was prohibited, beaten, and kept out from Native American kids in government all inclusive schools. At the point when the aggravation at the action words "to be a Saturday, and "to be a slope," Kimmerer tosses down the book, prepared to surrender, "Goodness, the apparitions of the evangelists in the all inclusive schools probably been running their hands in happiness at my disappointment. 'She's going to give up,' they said.'" And at that time she swears, "At that time I could smell the water of the inlet, watch it shake against the offer, and hear it filter onto the sand… the action word wiikwegamaa—to be a cove—discharges the water from subjugation and allows it to live" (p. 55). 

A flawless investigation into the common world through antiquated insight, Braiding Sweetgrass brings physical, social, and phonetic scenes to existence with such stunning point of interest, maybe she paints the world once more. The three sparkling strands of sweetgrass in an interlace, and strands inside this book "speak to the solidarity of psyche, body, and soul that makes us entire" (p. 378) A lovely and insightful book.