Braiding Sweetgrass — Kimmerer
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants Robin Wall Kimmerer, 2013 Executive Summary Robin Wall Kimmerer is a botanist and a member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation, and Braiding Sweetgrass is an attempt to hold both ways of knowing simultaneously — the scientific and the Indigenous — without reducing either to the other. The book’s central argument is not that Western science is wrong but that it is incomplete: it excels at describing how the natural world works and is nearly silent on what we owe it. The thesis: the animacy of the living world — the recognition that plants, animals, and land are not objects but relatives — is not mysticism. It is a different epistemology, and it may be the one that survival requires. ...