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metaphor that makes her work both profound and accessible

On an Ojibwe reservation called Languille Lake

Adapted by Rebecca Stefoff

Flickering through the chaos are signs of increasing repression: a shaken Cedar witnesses a family wrenched apart when police violently drag a mother from her husband and child in a parking lot

Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants violence ” — Kirkus Reviews (starredAs a botanist, Robin Wall Kimmerer has been trained to ask questions of nature with the tools of science. As a member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation, she embraces the notion that plants and animals are our oldest teachers. In Braiding Sweetgrass, Kimmerer brings these two lenses of knowledge together to take us on "a journey that is every bit as mythic as it is scientific, as sacred as it is historical, as clever as it is wise" (Elizabeth Gilbert).