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Robin Wall Kimmerer: Braiding Sweetgrass (Hardcover, 2013, Milkweed Editions) 4 stars

As a botanist, Robin Wall Kimmerer has been trained to ask questions of nature with …

A Beautifully Written But Content Light Book

3 stars

This book deftly mixes personal stories with an introduction to a wide variety of Native American creation stories, cultural practices, foodways, agricultural practices, and epistemologies (seriously). I also appreciated the academic botanical knowledge that Kimmerer brings here adds a solid additional dimension to the book. I was hoping for much less of a focus on the anecdotal stories here, but if that's what you're looking for you'll like the book even more than I did.