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Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants by Robin Wall Kimmerer
34 reviews
betag1013's review against another edition
5.0
Minor: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Genocide, Forced institutionalization, Xenophobia, Grief, Fire/Fire injury, Colonisation, War, and Classism
ashwaar's review against another edition
4.5
The book has its basis in science, but Kimmerer explains ecological processes so deftly and poetically that it's easy to take in. Even if you don't understand everything, the language and writing style clearly shows her love and respect for the topic. The chapters range in length and topic, but a few of my favourites include the erasure of indigenous languages, stories of tapping maple syrup trees, and rituals performed in thanks for the land.
The book acknowledges and discusses the role of indigenous knowledge in scientific understanding of the Earth and how to live in balance with our land. After reading this, I felt more compelled to pause when hiking to accept the landscapes around me and feel gratitude for them. Braiding Sweetgrass is a non-fiction book I'd recommend to almost everyone as essential reading.
Rating: 4.5/5
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Graphic: Animal death, Genocide, Forced institutionalization, and Colonisation
Moderate: Death and Racism
lizziaha's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Genocide and Forced institutionalization
Moderate: Racism, Grief, Religious bigotry, and Colonisation
Minor: Fire/Fire injury
itkit's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Forced institutionalization and Colonisation
Moderate: Genocide
Minor: Suicide
purplepenning's review against another edition
4.0
Moderate: Racism, Sexism, Forced institutionalization, Religious bigotry, and Colonisation
Minor: Animal cruelty and Animal death
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
kaimetcalfe's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Animal death, Genocide, Grief, and Colonisation
Moderate: Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Chronic illness, Death, Forced institutionalization, Blood, and Colonisation
maregred's review against another edition
4.0
Graphic: Colonisation
Minor: Genocide, Racism, Forced institutionalization, Grief, and Cultural appropriation
talonsontypewriters's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Racism and Colonisation
Moderate: Animal death, Death, Genocide, Forced institutionalization, Xenophobia, Grief, Religious bigotry, Fire/Fire injury, War, and Classism
Minor: Animal cruelty, Child death, Misogyny, Sexism, Suicide, Excrement, Vomit, Cannibalism, Car accident, Suicide attempt, Murder, Pregnancy, Cultural appropriation, Abandonment, and Alcohol
Climate change, habitat destruction, pollution.susannaobrien's review against another edition
4.0
She writes poetically, which was often a joy, but sometimes felt like a slog. I really did find it too long, and sadly caught myself rushing through to finish the audiobook before my loan expire (Perhaps one to have a copy of and dip into). It definitely could have been edited as some chapters felt repetitive or dull. Or split into two, as I did appreciate the richness of the topics covered.
Overall, it exposed my to new ways of thinking and I know I'll be trying to take these ideas forward with me.
Moderate: Genocide, Forced institutionalization, and Colonisation
Minor: Addiction, Grief, and Cultural appropriation