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As a botanist and professor of plant ecology, Robin Wall Kimmerer has spent a career learning how to ask questions of nature using the tools of science. As a Potawatomi woman, she learned from elders, family, and history that the Potawatomi, as well as a majority of other cultures indigenous to this land, consider plants and animals to be our oldest teachers. In Braiding Sweetgrass, Kimmerer brings these two lenses of knowing together to reveal what...
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HighWater Press
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[2020]
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English
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"An engaging look at how the animals, people, and seasons within an ecosystem are intertwined. To the Gitxsan people of Northwestern British Columbia, the eagle is an integral part of the natural landscape. Together, they share the land and forests that the Skeena River runs through, as well as the sockeye salmon within it. Follow the eagle mother as she teaches her eaglets what they need to survive on their own. The Mothers of Xsan series uses striking...
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Harper San Francisco
Pub. Date
c2004
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English
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Wisdom through observation: lesson of eagle -- Find and preserve the medicine: lesson of bear -- Balance in all things: lesson of lion -- One among many: lesson of wolf -- Develop intuition: lesson of orca -- Seek truth: lesson of owl -- Strive for freedom: lesson of tiger -- Heat: lesson of cottonwood tree -- Thin: lesson of deer -- Gone: lesson of buffalo -- Too many: lesson of rat.
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