She also presents the history of the plants and botany from a scientific perspective. Kimmerer, who is an enrolled member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation, writes about her personal experiences working with plants and reuniting with her people's cultural traditions. Kimmerer is known for her scholarship on traditional ecological knowledge, ethnobotany, and moss ecology.īraiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants is about botany and the relationship to land in Native American traditions. The book received largely positive reviews, appearing on several bestseller lists.

'Council of the Pecans' in Orion Magazine in 2013īraiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants is a 2013 nonfiction book by Potawatomi professor Robin Wall Kimmerer, about the role of Indigenous knowledge as an alternative or complementary approach to Western mainstream scientific methodologies.īraiding Sweetgrass explores reciprocal relationships between humans and the land, with a focus on the role of plants and botany in both Native American and Western traditions. Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses Olson Nature Writing Awardĩ78-1-57131-335-5 (hardback alkaline paper)

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