Braiding Sweetgrass
Braiding Sweetgrass
Robin Wall Kimmerer · first published 2013 · ISBN 9781571311771
A botanist and enrolled member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation braids together Indigenous knowledge, plant science, and personal essay. Kimmerer argues that plants are teachers and that reciprocity, not extraction, is the honest basis for the relationship.
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Kimmerer is a working botanist and a citizen of the Potawatomi Nation, and she writes about plants as teachers rather than material. The argument for reciprocity over extraction is the book's spine, and it reframes everything else on this list.