Reviews tagging 'Forced institutionalization'

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

31 reviews

readingwithkaitlyn's review against another edition

informative reflective slow-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

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.

novella42's review against another edition

emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Colonisation and Forced institutionalization

Moderate: Animal death, Fire/Fire injury, and Classism

catinaflatcap's review against another edition

emotional hopeful informative reflective slow-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Colonisation

Minor: Forced institutionalization

decie's review against another edition

hopeful informative inspiring reflective slow-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Colonisation

Moderate: Forced institutionalization

rexpostfacto's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative inspiring reflective slow-paced

4.75

An informative and thought-provoking read. It got a little long for my taste, but overall very enjoyable and stimulating. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Genocide, Racial slurs, Colonisation, and Racism

Minor: Colonisation, Death, War, Forced institutionalization, and Hate crime

eden_autumn's review against another edition

emotional hopeful informative inspiring slow-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

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 against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective slow-paced

5.0

Genuinely a life-changing book. Inspires me and shows me new way for me to return to studying and practicing ecology. 

I highly recommend the audiobook because it is read wonderfully by the author. 

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Content Warnings

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

betag1013's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring mysterious reflective sad tense slow-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

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

emotional informative inspiring reflective sad slow-paced

4.5

Braiding Sweetgrass is a hefty book packed with stories, anecdotes and emotions. Throughout its pages, Kimmerer takes us along as she surveys mountainsides, harvests roots, saves reptiles from becoming roadkill, and watches her girls grow up and leave home. She discusses the delicate intersection of loving the planet whilst studying it and concludes that you cannot understand the environment if you don't feel for it.

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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Content Warnings

Graphic: Colonisation, Genocide, Forced institutionalization, and Animal death

Moderate: Death and Racism

lizziaha's review against another edition

hopeful informative inspiring

5.0

This book made me deeply reflect on my own life and the ways that I interact with nature. I hope it changed me for the better. I also was pleasantly surprised to see how narrative-based this book was. It made the read faster and more interesting. And Kimmerer’s language is so beautiful, while maintaining a simplicity that kept everything easy to understand. Especially to hear it in her own voice, I felt like I was floating along these words. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Forced institutionalization and Genocide

Moderate: Colonisation, Grief, Racism, and Religious bigotry

Minor: Fire/Fire injury