After reading the book, what do you find yourself curious about? Do you feel a connection to the Earth as reciprocal as the relationships outlined in this chapter? Kimmerer describes Skywoman as an "ancestral gardener" and Eve as an "exile". over despair. The trees act not as individuals, but somehow as a collective. Why or why not? Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer - Penguin Her work is in the collections of the Denver Art Museum, Minneapolis Institute of Art, Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian, Tweed Museum of Art, IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts, Akta Lakota Museum among other public and private collections. Link to other LTER Network Site Profiles. One such attempt at reclaiming Indigenous culture is being made by Sakokwenionkwas, or Tom Porter, a member of the Bear Clan. Against the background hiss of rain, she distinguishes the sounds drops make when they fall on different surfaces, a large leaf, a rock, a small pool of water, or moss. Algae photosynthesizes and thus produces its own nutrients, a form of gathering, while fungi must dissolve other living things in order to harness their acids and enzymes, a form of hunting. Kimmerer who recently won a MacArthur Foundation "genius" grant used as an example one successful project at the State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry, where she directs the Center for Native Peoples and the Environment. It gives us knowing, but not caring. Fougere's comment relates to Kimmerer's quote from his Witness To The Rain chapter in which he says, "If there is meaning in the past and in the imagined future, it is captured in the moment. Robin Wall Kimmerer: 'Mosses are a model of how we might live' It left me at a loss for words. This question was asked of a popular fiction writer who took not a moment's thought before saying, my own of course. Even a wounded world holds us, giving us. In fact, these "Braiding Sweetgrass" book club questions are intended to help in the idea generation for solutions to problems highlighted in the book, in addition to an analysis of our own relationship with our community and the Earth. (LogOut/ The Andrews Forest (AND) Program is part of the Long-Term Ecological Research (LTER) Network established by the National Science Foundation. I must admit I had my reservations about this book before reading it. What are your thoughts concerning indigenous agriculture in contrast to Western agriculture? By observing, studying, paying attention to the granular journey of every individual member of an ecosystem, we can be not just good engineers of water, of land, of food production but honourable ones. Braiding Sweetgrass Chapter 29 Summary & Analysis | LitCharts Witness to the rain Published December 15, 2017 Title Witness to the rain Authors: Kimmerer, Robin W. Secondary Authors: Fleischner, Thomas L. Publication Type Book Section Year of Publication: 2011 Publisher Name: Trinity University Press Publisher City: San Antonio, TX Accession Number: AND4674 URL

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