About the author
Robin Wall Kimmerer is a Potawatomi botanist, teacher, and writer. Her work brings plant ecology into conversation with Indigenous knowledge, language, reciprocity, and the ethical difference between taking a resource and receiving a gift.
Robin Wall Kimmerer writes as a botanist, teacher, mother, and enrolled member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation. Braiding Sweetgrass asks what becomes visible when plants are treated not only as objects of study, but as living participants in relationships of gift and obligation.
Where to start
Start with Braiding Sweetgrass. A botanist and Citizen Potawatomi Nation member brings scientific observation into conversation with Indigenous teachings about plants.
