When “Braiding Sweetgrass” arrived on the bestseller list in February 2020, it surprised the literary world. The book hadn’t followed the usual path: It had come out more than six years earlier. It ...

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‘Braiding Sweetgrass’ combines Potawatomi knowledge and scientific inquiry in a deep, reverent essay series. Read it with us this October. Plus, we’ll be hosting virtual and in-person events ...

The secret to becoming a good steward of the Earth begins with paying attention, said author Robin Wall Kimmerer, a MacArthur Fellow, botany professor and an enrolled member of the Citizen Potawatomi ...

Lots of schools in Montana will celebrate Native American day this Friday. A few schools with predominately Indian student bodies will even take the day off. But, on the Fort Belknap Reservation, the ...

Many readers have already signed up for the inaugural Louisiana Inspired Book Club. In this, the first quarter of the year, we are reading "Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom: Scientific Knowledge ...

In her 2013 essay collection “Braiding Sweetgrass,” the botanist and indigenous writer Robin Wall Kimmerer says she tried to reconcile two kinds of knowing. “For the most part, traditional ecological ...

Members from a northern Manitoba First Nation known as the "land of sweetgrass" have travelled hundreds of kilometres to ...

In 2024, Louisiana Inspired will host four book clubs, one each quarter. The selected books represent a combination of fiction and nonfiction — and all, in a variety of ways, prompt ideas or tell the ...