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2023-2024 Common Read - Braiding Sweetgrass: Skywoman Falling

 

"When we braid sweetgrass, we are braiding the hair of Mother Earth, showing her our loving attention, our care for her beauty and well-being, in gratitude for all she has given us."  p.5

Skywoman, Moment in Flight. Bruce King

Bruce King. Skywoman, Moment in Flight  Image source: https://convergenceus.org/2020/09/15/my-skywoman-fall-again/https://convergenceus.org/2020/09/15/my-skywoman-fall-again/

Birth Story of Creation

J.B Thomas, 2001  https://meherrinnation.org/culture/the-creation-story/

Sweetgrass

Kodemizer at the English Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0 , via Wikimedia Commons

Mary Tebo “Wenniseriiosta” braiding sweetgrass

Photo from the Akwesasne Cultural Center Museum archives.

Muskrat

Photo from Wikipedia 

Muskrat swimming

Photo from Wikipedia

The Common Loon

Photo from Wikipedia

Keywords

Alchemy:  a power or process that changes or transforms something in a mysterious or impressive way. (MW)

Brownfield: A tract of land that has been developed for industrial purposes, polluted, and then abandoned. (MW)

Cosmology: a theory or doctrine describing the natural order of the universe. (MW)

Factory farms:  a large industrialized farm; especially : a farm on which large numbers of livestock are raised indoors in conditions intended to maximize production at minimal cost. (MW)

Suburban sprawl: The spreading of developments (such as housing developments and shopping centers) into suburban or rural areas. (MW)

Sustenance: means of support, maintenance, or subsistence; food.  (MW)

Wiingaashk: Sweetgrass.

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Robin Wall Kimmerer on Paddling Against the Wind