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Kimmerer, Robin Wall, author.

Braiding sweetgrass for young adults : indigenous wisdom, scientific knowledge, and the teachings of plants / Robin Wall Kimmerer ; adapted by Monique Gray Smith ; illustrations by Nicole Neidhardt.

Minneapolis : Zest Books, [2022]

©2022

304 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm

"Botanist Robin Wall Kimmerer's best-selling book Braiding Sweetgrass is adapted for a young adult audience by children's author Monique Gray Smith, bringing Indigenous wisdom, scientific knowledge, and the lessons of plant life to a new generation"-- Provided by publisher.

Ages 12-18 Zest Books.

Grades 7-9 Zest Books.

Kimmerer, Robin Wall.

Indian philosophy.

Ethnoecology.

Philosophy of nature.

Human ecology -- Philosophy.

Nature -- Effect of human beings on.

Human-plant relationships.

Botany -- Philosophy.

Potawatomi Indians -- Biography.

Potawatomi Indians -- Social life and customs.

Biographies.

Gray Smith, Monique, 1968- adapter.

Neidhardt, Nicole, illustrator.

Adaptation of (work): Kimmerer, Robin Wall. Braiding sweetgrass.

Indigenous wisdom, scientific knowledge, and the teachings of plants

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Meeting sweetgrass. An invitation to remember -- Skywoman falling -- Wiingaashk -- The council of pecans -- The gift of strawberries -- An offering -- Asters and goldenrod -- Maple sugar moon -- Witch hazel -- Allegiance to gratitude -- Epiphany in the beans -- The three sisters -- Wisgaak Gokpenagen: a black ash basket -- Mishkos Kenomagwen: the teachings of grass -- Maple nation: a citizenship guide -- The honorable harvest -- In the footsteps of Nanabozho: becoming indigenous to place -- Sitting in a circle -- Burning cascade head -- Putting down roots -- Old-growth children -- Windigo footprints -- People of corn, people of light -- Shkitagen: People of the seventh fire -- Defeating Windigo.

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