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2023-2024 Common Read - Braiding Sweetgrass: Mishkos Kenomagwen: The Teachings of Grass

"Science and traditional knowledge may ask different questions and speak different languages, but they may converge when both truly listen to the plants." p.165

Timothy-grass (Phleum pratense) in bloom

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Boneset

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Grazing Buffalo

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Keywords

Biomass:  the amount of living matter (as in a unit area or volume of habitat). (MW)

Compensatory Growth: when a plant compensates for loss of foliage by quickly growing more. (YA)

Condescension: patronizing attitude or behavior. (MW)

Deplete: to lessen markedly in quantity, content, power, or value. (MW)

Dormant: marked by a suspension of activity. (MW)

Eloquent: vividly or movingly expressive or revealing. (MW)

Objectivity: the quality or character of being objective : lack of favoritism toward one side or another : freedom from bias. (MW)

Scientific theory: a cohesive body of knowledge, an explanation that is consistent among a range of cases and can allow you to predict what might happen in unknown situations. (YA)

Skeptical: an attitude of doubt or a disposition to incredulity either in general or toward a particular object. (MW)

Speculative: theoretical rather than demonstrable. (MW)

Theoretical framework: consists of concepts and, together with their definitions and reference to relevant scholarly literature, existing theory that is used for your particular study. (USCL)

Timothy: a type of long perennial grass also known as herd’s-grass. (YA)

Unequivocally: leaving no doubt. (MW)

Validation: an act, process, or instance of validating [to recognize, establish, or illustrate the worthiness or legitimacy of]. (MW)

Vigor: to recognize, establish, or illustrate the worthiness or legitimacy of. (MW)

Additional Resources

Robin Kimmerer - Mishkos Kenomagwen: The Teachings of Grass

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