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2023-2024 Common Read - Braiding Sweetgrass: People of Corn, People of Light

"I dream of a world guided by a lens of stories rooted in the revelations of science and framed with an indigenous worldview—stories in which matter and spirit are both given voice." p. 346

Maize: (a) Lower part of the plant (b) top of plant with male inflorescense (c) middle of plant with female inflorescenses (d) ear/cob: (1) two pollen grains of a male inflorescense (3, 4) female flowers (5) female flowers with stigma (6) fruit bottom vie

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Maya maize god statue at the British Museum

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Bison

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Tobacco Plant

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Keywords

Appropriation: to take or make use of without authority or right. (MW)

Articulate: able to speak. (MW)

Attribute: a quality, character, or characteristic ascribed to someone or something. (MW)

Lithe: characterized by easy flexibility and grace. (MW)

Potent: having or wielding force, authority, or influence : POWERFUL. (MW)

Privy: admitted as one sharing in a secret. (MW)

Synonymous: having the same connotations, implications, or reference. (MW)