Reviews tagging 'Colonisation'

Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants by Robin Wall Kimmerer

105 reviews

the_vegan_bookworm's review against another edition

emotional hopeful reflective fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Genocide, and Colonisation

bucklace27's review against another edition

hopeful informative reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Graphic: Colonisation

apersonfromflorida's review against another edition

informative inspiring reflective slow-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Genocide, and Colonisation

Moderate: Death, Racism, and Grief

Minor: Suicide, Cannibalism, and War

vereisnthere's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective relaxing slow-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Genocide, Grief, Religious bigotry, and Colonisation

Moderate: Child abuse, Child death, Xenophobia, Cannibalism, Fire/Fire injury, and War

Minor: Blood, Excrement, Alcohol, and Deportation

tashtasher's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative inspiring reflective sad slow-paced

3.0

Started off well. Lost me in the middle and end. Too many unrelated personal anecdotes.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Genocide and Colonisation

takarakei's review against another edition

emotional informative reflective slow-paced

4.5

I really enjoyed the combination of memoir style writing infused with nature writing providing lots of interesting info. The writing is beautifully descriptive and moving. As someone who grew up in the area (outside Syracuse) she writes about a lot, there was a nostalgic factor for me as well.

My one qualm (and this could be indicative of this being published a decade ago) is I think Wall Kimmerer shies away a bit from giving any real solutions besides to become "closer to nature" which reads a bit naive considering where we are as a world right now. Unfortunately we are just so far past the way indigenous people used to live that I struggle to see a path that leads anywhere near back there.  

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Colonisation

Moderate: Animal death, Death, Genocide, Racism, Sexism, Suicide, Grief, and War

Minor: Cannibalism

turidt's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative inspiring reflective relaxing sad slow-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Genocide, Grief, Cultural appropriation, Colonisation, and Deportation

Moderate: Forced institutionalization, Cannibalism, and Religious bigotry

Minor: Vomit

kers_tin's review against another edition

challenging funny hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad slow-paced

4.75

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Graphic: Colonisation

danajoy's review against another edition

hopeful informative reflective sad

4.25

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Graphic: Colonisation

Moderate: Kidnapping, Grief, Fire/Fire injury, and War

Minor: Murder

marmitecake's review against another edition

hopeful informative inspiring reflective relaxing slow-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Minor: Animal death, Suicide, Blood, and Colonisation