Originally published: Minneapolis: Milkweed Editions, 2013.

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Planting sweetgrass -- Skywoman falling -- The council of pecans -- The gift of strawberries -- An offering -- Asters and goldenrod -- Tending sweetgrass -- Maple sugar moon -- Witch hazel - A mother's work -- The consolation of water lilies -- Allegiance to gratitude -- Picking sweetgrass -- Epiphany in the beans -- The three sisters -- Wisgaak gokpenagen : a black ash basket -- Mishkos kenomagwen : the teachings of grass -- Maple nation : a citizenship guide -- The honorable harvest -- Braiding sweetgrass -- In the footsteps on Nanabozho : becoming indigenous to place -- The sound of silverbells -- Sitting in a circle -- Burning cascade head -- Putting down roots -- Umbilicaria : the belly button of the world -- Old-growth children -- Witness to the rain -- Burning sweatgrass -- Windigo footprints -- The sacred and the superfund -- People of corn, people of light -- Collateral damage -- Shkitagen : people of the seventh fire -- Defeating windigo -- Epilogue : returning the gift.

As a botanist, Robin Wall Kimmerer has been trained to ask questions of nature with the tools of science. As a member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation, she embraces the notion that plants and animals are our oldest teachers. In Braiding Sweetgrass, Kimmerer brings these two lenses of knowledge together to take us on "a journey that is every bit as mythic as it is scientific, as sacred as it is historical, as clever as it is wise" (Elizabeth Gilbert). Drawing on her life as an indigenous scientist, a mother, and a woman, Kimmerer shows how other living beings-asters and goldenrod, strawberries and squash, salamanders, algae, and sweetgrass-offer us gifts and lessons, even if we've forgotten how to hear their voices.