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Planting Sweetgrass

· NOTE: The following version of the book was used in the creation of this Lesson Plan: Kimmerer, Robin Wall. Braiding Sweetgrass. Milkweed Editions, 2013. Ebook edition.

· Braiding Sweetgrass is a nonfiction book by Distinguished Teaching Professor of Environmental and Forest Biology and Director for the Center for Native Peoples and the Environment, Robin Wall Kimmerer.

· In this book, Kimmerer’s first-person narrative weaves together scientific knowledge and indigenous wisdom, examining our environment through multiple lenses and offering hope for a spiritual connection to the world around us.

· The book is divided into five sections based on the process of her Potawatomi tradition of braiding sweetgrass.

· Each section is comprised of multiple chapters connected by a common theme.

· Part 1, Planting Sweetgrass, begins with a Preface, wherein Kimmerer describes the beauty and sacredness of sweetgrass, or Hierochloe odorata, among her people.

· The author describes the symbolic meaning of braiding...

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