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Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants by Robin Wall Kimmerer
15 reviews
bashsbooks's review against another edition
4.25
All-in-all, Braiding Sweetgrass is a fantastic personal essay collection about nature, culture, and our interpersonal (person here including nonhumans!) connections. I can understand perfectly why it is so popular and widely recommended. My friend and I listened the audiobook, so we not only appreciated the descriptions as written, but also, Kimmerer's steady and soothing voice as she read through the text she so lovingly crafted. My favorite takeaways from Braiding Sweetgrass were: the obvious and unabashed love Kimmerer has for the natural world, her willingness to combine traditional wisdom and hard science, her gentle encouragement to consider the world from a different perspective (especially that of a plant or an animal), and her fierce love and appreciate for her Potawatomi culture and heritage. I was also deeply compelled by her rumination on how to become indigenous to place and what obligations we have to others (both human and not). What I liked less was relatively minor by comparison; I thought she was a little uncomfortably committed to gender roles as 'natural' from time to time, and I wished that she came out and actually expanded on her issues with 'technology' rather than taking vague pot-shots at it here and there. Adjacently, my friend pointed out that the anecdote about an ex's attempted suicide in his car to make a point about human disconnectedness with nature was... messy, at best. But those were small moments, and with a book as long and expansive as this one, there were bound to be hangups here and there. Overall, fantastic book, and I highly recommend listening to the audiobook.
Graphic: Grief and Colonisation
Moderate: Animal death, Genocide, Misogyny, Racism, Sexism, Violence, and Religious bigotry
Minor: Cannibalism, Suicide attempt, Fire/Fire injury, and Cultural appropriation
Graphic descriptions of environmental disasters, pollution, and other eco-destructive activities.booknerd_therapist's review against another edition
5.0
Moderate: Grief
Minor: Death, Genocide, Racism, Violence, Xenophobia, and Colonisation
eden_autumn's review against another edition
4.75
Moderate: Child abuse, Child death, Death, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Hate crime, Physical abuse, Racism, Forced institutionalization, Grief, Fire/Fire injury, Cultural appropriation, and Colonisation
Minor: Ableism and Violence
hailstorm3812's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Genocide and Colonisation
Moderate: Cultural appropriation
Minor: Sexism, Violence, Religious bigotry, and War
leefox's review against another edition
5.0
Moderate: Colonisation
Minor: Violence, Murder, and War
dhiyanah's review against another edition
5.0
By sharing her lived experiences in reclaiming, remembering, and honoring practices kept alive by her own and other indigenous lineages (US-based), the author invites us to reflect on our own capacities and efforts of being in right relationship with the living world. In this book, I found reflections of how my own struggles of unbelonging and loneliness are linked to a sense of feeling orphaned from land, from wider community. I found deep queries and burning desires within me - not having much framework for being local to anywhere - to embody a more reciprocal and grounded approach to the natural world, to this planet who still feeds and tends to us through all this chaos.
For this and so much more, I feel this is a crucial read to help situate and cultivate hope, courage, and determination within as we journey through these giant waves of grief and renewal with our Mother Earth.
Graphic: Genocide, Forced institutionalization, and Colonisation
Moderate: Racism and Grief
Minor: Animal death, Suicide, Violence, and Fire/Fire injury
waybeyondblue's review against another edition
4.5
Graphic: Death, Grief, and Colonisation
Moderate: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Violence, Religious bigotry, Fire/Fire injury, and Cultural appropriation
kshertz's review against another edition
3.75
Minor: Violence, Xenophobia, Cultural appropriation, and Colonisation
eve81's review against another edition
4.75
Graphic: Violence and Colonisation
Minor: Addiction
emily_koopmann's review against another edition
3.25
Minor: Genocide, Violence, and War