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Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants by Robin Wall Kimmerer
31 reviews
readingwithkaitlyn's review against another edition
4.0
Minor: Excrement, Pregnancy, Alcohol, Misogyny, Fire/Fire injury, Animal death, Forced institutionalization, Animal cruelty, Racial slurs, Death, Colonisation, Suicide, War, Genocide, Blood, Car accident, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, and Murder
residential schools, trail of death, carlisle, pollution.wickedgrumpy's review against another edition
3.25
Minor: Cannibalism, Genocide, Racism, Abandonment, Death, Pregnancy, Animal death, Chronic illness, Colonisation, Cancer, Animal cruelty, Classism, Misogyny, Xenophobia, and Religious bigotry
rexpostfacto's review against another edition
4.75
Moderate: Genocide, Racial slurs, Colonisation, and Racism
Minor: Colonisation, Death, War, Forced institutionalization, and Hate crime
booknerd_therapist's review against another edition
5.0
Moderate: Grief
Minor: Xenophobia, Death, Racism, Violence, Colonisation, and Genocide
eden_autumn's review against another edition
4.75
Moderate: Colonisation, Forced institutionalization, Genocide, Grief, Hate crime, Death, Physical abuse, Cultural appropriation, Fire/Fire injury, Child abuse, Child death, Emotional abuse, and Racism
Minor: Ableism and Violence
the_reading_wren's review
5.0
I highly recommend the audiobook because it is read wonderfully by the author.
Graphic: War, Death, Forced institutionalization, Grief, Religious bigotry, Fire/Fire injury, Animal death, Colonisation, Cultural appropriation, Racism, and Kidnapping
Minor: Alcohol, Alcoholism, Vomit, Pregnancy, Suicide attempt, Cannibalism, Addiction, Slavery, Stalking, Cancer, Misogyny, Religious bigotry, and Sexual content
parasolcrafter's review against another edition
5.0
Moderate: Cultural appropriation, Genocide, Animal death, Animal cruelty, Colonisation, Grief, Death, and Racism
betag1013's review against another edition
5.0
Minor: Fire/Fire injury, Animal cruelty, Child death, Animal death, Death, Forced institutionalization, Grief, Child abuse, Classism, Colonisation, Genocide, Xenophobia, and War
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: Colonisation, Genocide, Forced institutionalization, and Animal death
Moderate: Death and Racism
displacedcactus's review against another edition
I could have done without the whiff of gender essentialism, with men as fire keepers and women as water bearers, and motherhood as one of the essential stages of a woman's life. But other than that one small complaint, this book was awesome.
Moderate: Racism, Animal death, and Death
The racism is all in discussions of the history of how America has treated our Indigenous people, especially with regards to residential schools, reservations, the Trail of Tears, etc.