Braiding Sweetgrass for Young Adults
by Robin Wall Kimmerer
An Indigenous botanist offers powerful guidance and inspiration for a sustainable--and sustaining--future in this young readers' adaptation of her 2015 adult bestseller. Sweetgrass--its planting, tending, picking, braiding, and burning--forms the organizing structure for this work in which scientific discovery and traditional wisdom form a harmonious, interconnected whole. Sweetgrass is important to many Indigenous nations as well as a potent example of the limitations of traditional Western notions of people existing in opposition to the natural world. Kimmerer, a member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation, draws from her own experience as an Indigenous person and scientist to weave together essays that illustrate how humans can exist in a more reciprocal relationship with nature. Smith's adaptation trims the language from the adult version and adds discussion questions and prompts for reflection.
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