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2023-2024 Common Read - Braiding Sweetgrass: In the Footsteps of Nanabozho: Becoming Indigenous to Place

" To become naturalized is to live as if your children’s future matters, to take care of the land as if our lives and the lives of all our relatives depend on it. Because they do." p. 215

Great Blue Heron

Ken Thomas, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Racoon

Fazalmajid, CC BY-SA 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons

American Beaver

Steve from washington, dc, usa, CC BY-SA 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons

Spider web at sunrise

I, Luc Viatour, CC BY-SA 3.0 , via Wikimedia Commons

Plantago Major (AKA: "White Man's Footprint")

ErnstA, CC BY-SA 3.0 <http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/>, via Wikimedia Commons

Garlic Mustard

Image courtesy of New York Invasive Species Information

Purple Loosestrife

Image Courtesy of the National Park Service

Cheatgrass

Image courtesy of Wikimedia

Grizzly Bear

Gregory "Slobirdr" Smith, CC BY-SA 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons

Keywords

Biomimicry: The imitation of natural biological designs or processes in engineering or invention. (MW)

Inexorably:  not to be persuaded, moved, or stopped. (MW)

Nanabozho: part man, part manido . The personification of life forces, the Anishinaabe hero, and our great teacher of how to be human. (YA)

Poultice: a soft, usually heated substance that is spread on cloth and then placed on the skin to heal a sore or reduce pain. (YA)

Sojourn: a temporary stay (MW)

Tenuous: having little substance or strength (MW) 

Vasculum: a usually metal and commonly cylindrical or flattened covered box used in collecting plants (MW)

Additional Resources

Wood Thrush Song

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