Adapted for young adults by Monique Gray Smith

Product Code: 9005
ISBN: 9781728458991
Format: Paperback / softback
Publisher: Zest Books
Pages: 304
Published Date: 11/01/2022
Availability:In stock
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Price: $17.99

Drawing from her experiences as an Indigenous scientist, botanist Robin Wall Kimmerer demonstrated how all living things - from strawberries and witch hazel to water lilies and lichen - provide us with gifts and lessons every day in her best-selling book Braiding Sweetgrass. Adapted for young adults by Monique Gray Smith, this new edition reinforces how wider ecological understanding stems from listening to the earth’s oldest teachers: the plants around us. With informative sidebars, reflection questions, and art from illustrator Nicole Neidhardt, Braiding Sweetgrass for Young Adults brings Indigenous wisdom, scientific knowledge, and the lessons of plant life to a new generation.

Ages 13+


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Contents

Meeting Sweetgrass
An Invitation to Remember
Skywoman Falling
Wiingaashk

Planting Sweetgrass
The Council of Pecans
The Gift of Strawberries
An Offering
Asters and Goldenrod

Tending Sweetgrass
Maple Sugar Moon
Witch Hazel
Allegiance to Gratitude

Picking Sweetgrass
Epiphany in the Beans
The Three Sisters
Wisgaak Gokpenagen: The Teachings of Grass
Maple Nation: A Citizenship Guide
The Honorable Harvest

Braiding Sweetgrass
In the Footsteps of Nanabozho
Becoming Indigenous to Place
Sitting in a Circle
Burning Cascade Head
Old-Growth Children

Burning Sweetgrass
Windigo Footprints
People of Corn, People of Light
Shkitagen: The People of the Seventh Fire
Defeating Windigo

Author’s Note
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“Both an urgent, essential call to action and an uplifting love letter.” - Kirkus Reviews, starred review

“This beautiful, imaginative revisioning is a gift to our children that teaches them how to follow the path of our ancestors.” - Diane Wilson, author of The Seed Keeper

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