Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants (PB) Board Book and the larger world

and the larger world

as well as our own responses to crime

the work applies the concept of two-eyed seeing to the histories of colonialism and education in Canada

the federal government believed that the responsibility for educating and assimilating Métis people lay with provincial and territorial governments

a Métis policeman

Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants (PB) Board Book and the larger worldBraiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants is poised to be a classic of traditional knowledge writing. As a botanist, Robin Wall Kimmerer asks questions of nature with the tools of science. As a member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation, Kimmerer draws on her life as an Indigenous scientist, a mother, and a woman, and shows how other living beings such as asters and goldenrod, strawberries and squash,