Braiding Sweetgrass Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants

I put this book in the kind of tradition or sharing the spirit of Robin Wall Kimmerer's great book, Braiding Sweetgrass.

According to Haudenosaunee mythology, as recounted by Robin Wall Kimmerer in Braden's Sweetgrass,

the mother goddess Sky Woman came to the land as an immigrant from the heavens, but became indigenous by listening to the land, learning from other species to understand how to live on it, giving as she received, and caring for the earth and its keepers for the sake

of those who would inherit it when she passed on. In their view, the land is identity. It is ancestral connection. It is pharmacy, it is library, and it is home, the source of all that sustains, and the sacred

ground upon which those would observe their responsibility to the world.

According to Haudenosaunee mythology, as recounted by Robin Wall Kimmerer in Braiden's Sweetgrass,

The mother goddess Sky Woman came to the land as an immigrant from the heavens, but became indigenous by listening to the land, learning from other species to understand how to live on it, giving as she received, and caring for the earth and its keepers for the sake of those who would inherit it when she passed on.

the extraordinary woman who wrote Braiding Sweetgrass, is that what it's called? It's a beautiful book about nature and her relationship with nature.

And in fact, yesterday listening to that extraordinary woman who wrote Braiding Sweetgrass, is that what it's called? It's a beautiful book about nature and her relationship with nature.

That's the beginnings of the cosmology the beginning before the beginning that's the story that's in Braiding Sweetgrass

as you told that story I thought that's where you were going but Robin's tribe, the Potawatomies they have a variation of woman who fell from the sky Sky Woman

So is it fair to say just so I'm clear that cosmology could be like an indigenous religion based upon stars

going back to Robin's work on braiding sweetgrass, she had a dream after visiting, I believe it was a trading market in South America. And in her dream, she went and money was no good, only the sacred currency of other things that you could trade.

Few books have been more eagerly passed from hand to hand with delight in these last years than Robin Wall Kimmerer's Braiding Sweetgrass.

She writes books that join new scientific and ancient indigenous knowledge including gathering moss and braiding sweetgrass.

In your book Braiding Sweetgrass, there's this line, it came to me while picking beans, the secret of happiness.

Few books have been more eagerly passed from hand to hand with delight in these last years than Robin Wall Kimmerer's Braiding Sweetgrass.

Robin Wall Kimmerer is the State University of New York Distinguished Teaching Professor at the SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry in Syracuse. She is founding director of the Center for Native Peoples and the Environment.

Her books include Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses and Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants.