Download or read book Gathering Moss written by Robin Wall Kimmerer and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2021-07-01 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Kimmerer blends, with deep attentiveness and musicality, science and personal insights to tell the overlooked story of the planet's oldest plants' Guardian 'Bewitching ... a masterwork ... a glittering read in its entirety' Maria Popova, Brainpickings Living at the limits of our ordinary perception, mosses are a common but largely unnoticed element of the natural world. Gathering Moss is a beautifully written mix of science and personal reflection that invites readers to explore and learn from the elegantly simple lives of mosses. In these interwoven essays, Robin Wall Kimmerer leads general readers and scientists alike to an understanding of how mosses live and how their lives are intertwined with the lives of countless other beings. Kimmerer explains the biology of mosses clearly and artfully, while at the same time reflecting on what these fascinating organisms have to teach us. Drawing on her experiences as a scientist, a mother, and a Native American, Kimmerer explains the stories of mosses in scientific terms as well as within the framework of indigenous ways of knowing. In her book, the natural history and cultural relationships of mosses become a powerful metaphor for ways of living in the world.

Download or read book The First Blade of Sweetgrass written by Suzanne Greenlaw and published by Tilbury House Publishers and Cadent Publishing. This book was released on 2021-08-10 with total page 18 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Selected for the Notable Social Studies 2022 List Named to ALA Notable Children's Books 2022 In this Own Voices Native American picture book story, a modern Wabanaki girl is excited to accompany her grandmother for the first time to harvest sweetgrass for basket making. Musquon must overcome her impatience while learning to distinguish sweetgrass from other salt marsh grasses, but slowly the spirit and peace of her surroundings speak to her, and she gathers sweetgrass as her ancestors have done for centuries, leaving the first blade she sees to grow for future generations. This sweet, authentic story from a Maliseet mother and her Passamaquoddy husband includes backmatter about traditional basket making and a Wabanaki glossary.

Download or read book Braiding Sweetgrass for Young Adults written by Robin Wall Kimmerer and published by Lerner + ORM. This book was released on 2022-11-01 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing from her experiences as an Indigenous scientist, botanist Robin Wall Kimmerer demonstrated how all living things—from strawberries and witch hazel to water lilies and lichen—provide us with gifts and lessons every day in her best-selling book Braiding Sweetgrass. Adapted for young adults by Monique Gray Smith, this new edition reinforces how wider ecological understanding stems from listening to the earth’s oldest teachers: the plants around us. With informative sidebars, reflection questions, and art from illustrator Nicole Neidhardt, Braiding Sweetgrass for Young Adults brings Indigenous wisdom, scientific knowledge, and the lessons of plant life to a new generation.

Download or read book A Way to Garden written by Margaret Roach and published by Timber Press. This book was released on 2019-04-30 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A Way to Garden prods us toward that ineffable place where we feel we belong; it’s a guide to living both in and out of the garden.” —The New York Times Book Review For Margaret Roach, gardening is more than a hobby, it’s a calling. Her unique approach, which she calls “horticultural how-to and woo-woo,” is a blend of vital information you need to memorize and intuitive steps you must simply feel and surrender to. In A Way to Garden, Roach imparts decades of garden wisdom on seasonal gardening, ornamental plants, vegetable gardening, design, gardening for wildlife, organic practices, and much more. She also challenges gardeners to think beyond their garden borders and to consider the ways gardening can enrich the world. Brimming with beautiful photographs of Roach’s own garden, A Way to Garden is practical, inspiring, and a must-have for every passionate gardener.

Download or read book Sweetgrass Basket written by Marlene Carvell and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2005-09-22 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In prose poetry and alternating voices, Marlene Carvell weaves a heartbreakingly beautiful story based on the real-life experiences of Native American children. Mattie and Sarah are two Mohawk sisters who are sent to an off-reservation school after the death of their mother. Subject to intimidation and corporal punishment, with little hope of contact with their father, the girls are taught menial tasks to prepare them for life as domestics. How Mattie and Sarah protect their culture, memories of their family life, and their love for each other makes for a powerful, unforgettable historical novel.

Download or read book Motorcycles Sweetgrass written by Drew Hayden Taylor and published by Vintage Canada. This book was released on 2021-06-01 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A story of magic, family, a mysterious stranger . . . and a band of marauding raccoons. Otter Lake is a sleepy Anishnawbe community where little happens. Until the day a handsome stranger pulls up astride a 1953 Indian Chief motorcycle – and turns Otter Lake completely upside down. Maggie, the Reserve’s chief, is swept off her feet, but Virgil, her teenage son, is less than enchanted. Suspicious of the stranger’s intentions, he teams up with his uncle Wayne – a master of aboriginal martial arts – to drive the stranger from the Reserve. And it turns out that the raccoons are willing to lend a hand.

Download or read book The Road Back to Sweetgrass written by Linda LeGarde Grover and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2014-09-01 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set in northern Minnesota, The Road Back to Sweetgrass follows Dale Ann, Theresa, and Margie, a trio of American Indian women, from the 1970s to the present, observing their coming of age and the intersection of their lives as they navigate love, economic hardship, loss, and changing family dynamics on the fictional Mozhay Point reservation. As young women, all three leave their homes. Margie and Theresa go to Duluth for college and work; there Theresa gets to know a handsome Indian boy, Michael Washington, who invites her home to the Sweetgrass land allotment to meet his father, Zho Wash, who lives in the original allotment cabin. When Margie accompanies her, complicated relationships are set into motion, and tensions over “real Indian-ness” emerge. Dale Ann, Margie, and Theresa find themselves pulled back again and again to the Sweetgrass allotment, a silent but ever-present entity in the book; sweetgrass itself is a plant used in the Ojibwe ceremonial odissimaa bag, containing a newborn baby’s umbilical cord. In a powerful final chapter, Zho Wash tells the story of the first days of the allotment, when the Wazhushkag, or Muskrat, family became transformed into the Washingtons by the pen of a federal Indian agent. This sense of place and home is both tangible and spiritual, and Linda LeGarde Grover skillfully connects it with the experience of Native women who came of age during the days of the federal termination policy and the struggle for tribal self-determination. The Road Back to Sweetgrass is a novel that that moves between past and present, the Native and the non-Native, history and myth, and tradition and survival, as the people of Mozhay Point navigate traumatic historical events and federal Indian policies while looking ahead to future generations and the continuation of the Anishinaabe people.

Download or read book Sweetgrass written by Mary Alice Monroe and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2012-01-01 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A poignant novel of hope, acceptance, forgiveness and the heartbreaking compromises people make in the name of love.

Download or read book Study Guide written by Supersummary and published by . This book was released on 2019-12-08 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: SuperSummary, a modern alternative to SparkNotes and CliffsNotes, offers high-quality study guides for challenging works of literature. This 65-page guide for "Braiding Sweetgrass" by Robin Wall Kimmerer includes detailed chapter summaries and analysis covering 32 chapters, as well as several more in-depth sections of expert-written literary analysis. Featured content includes commentary on major characters, 25 important quotes, essay topics, and key themes like The History of Indigenous People and The Intersection of Science and Spirituality.

Download or read book Destination written by Colleen Clancy Hansen and published by Sweetgrass Books. This book was released on 2014-08-01 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seeking a better life during the 1800s, the Johns and Davises travel to America from Wales and the Clancys from Ireland. Their stories intertwine in Butte, Montana, where the "richest hill on earth" promises good jobs. Here the families thrive and grow, enduring personal tragedies and witnessing first-hand the War of the Copper Kings, the Tong Wars, the Granite Mountain Mine disaster, the Spanish Flu pandemic, and two world wars. Based on the real-life stories of the author's ancestors, Destination: Butte, Montana brings the city's tumultuous early years to life."--Back cover.

Download or read book Sweetgrass written by Theresa Meuse and published by Nimbus Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2021-07-27 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Matthew and his Auntie take Warren on his first trip to the coast to collect sweetgrass, a traditional Mi'kmaw medicine and valued smudging ingredient. Along the way, Warren learns about the many uses of sweetgrass, and how to pick it respectfully.

Download or read book Old Growth written by Robin Wall Kimmerer and published by . This book was released on 2021-08 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Articles about trees that have appeared in Orion Magazine.

Download or read book The Democracy of Species written by Robin Wall Kimmerer and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2021-08-26 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In twenty short books, Penguin brings you the classics of the environmental movement. In The Democracy of Species Robin Wall Kimmerer guides us towards a more reciprocal, grateful and joyful relationship with our animate earth, from the wild leeks in the field to the deer in the woods. Over the past 75 years, a new canon has emerged. As life on Earth has become irrevocably altered by humans, visionary thinkers around the world have raised their voices to defend the planet, and affirm our place at the heart of its restoration. Their words have endured through the decades, becoming the classics of a movement. Together, these books show the richness of environmental thought, and point the way to a fairer, saner, greener world.

Download or read book Sweetgrass Book I written by Patricia Ann Kuess and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2011-09-07 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Easterner Johnathan Traver joined the Union Army to die a glorious, crimson death. He feels a valiant death will liberate him from his abusive boyhood. Yet in April of 1862, right after the victory in the battle of Shiloh, he is still alive while thousands of others have perished. Sergeant Traver faces a challenge; he firmly believes theyre fighting a modern war that calls for modern tactics. Travers new training techniques could change the course of the Civil War, and he teaches them to his squad, company, and regiment. But the army regards his efforts as seditious and views Traver as a traitor. On a personal level, Travers authority could be threatened when he falls in love with eighteen-year-old Esher Coley, a new recruit from the West. As they become warrior companions, their focus shifts. A profound Civil War love story that overcomes ingrained pain and heals old wounds, Sweetgrass: Book I communicates a triumph of the spirit.

Download or read book Sweetgrass Springs Boxed Set Books 7 9 written by Jean Brashear and published by Jean Brashear. This book was released on 2022-10-18 with total page 731 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stories that feel like a warm embrace from New York Times and USA Today bestselling Texas romance author Jean Brashear’s much-loved Sweetgrass Springs contemporary small town romance series that readers say they “just can’t put down.” THE BOOK BABES: Five friends share life and laughter and love…until unexpected temptation changes everything. And then there’s the surprise Sweetgrass Springs connection… TEXAS HOPE: Can two brothers who never knew each other existed overcome the secrets of a woman who abandoned one son and lied to the other? TEXAS STRONG: Can a man who’s never trusted anyone and a woman who’s trusted all the wrong men defy the odds and open their hearts to each other?

Download or read book Sweetgrass Springs Boxed Set Books 10 12 written by Jean Brashear and published by Jean Brashear. This book was released on 2022-10-18 with total page 459 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Take a trip to beloved, welcoming Sweetgrass Springs with more warm and romantic stories filled with colorful characters and a small town setting that will grab hold of your heart! TEXAS SWEET: When a stranger who holds the keys to her identity arrives in town, will the girl everyone knows as Brenda come to terms with her past or run again? BE MINE THIS CHRISTMAS: The man he’s become is not the boy she once knew—and he may never forgive her, once he knows the secret she’s been concealing TEXAS CHARM: He’s a country superstar; she’s a small town waitress. When the real world slams into their stolen dream, whose heart will be the one to break?

Download or read book Sweetgrass Springs Boxed Set Books 13 15 written by Jean Brashear and published by Jean Brashear. This book was released on 2022-10-19 with total page 515 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Welcome to the very small town with a very big heart! More stories from New York Times and USA Today bestselling Texas romance author Jean Brashear’s much-loved Sweetgrass Springs contemporary western romance series that make readers say “I want to go live there!” TEXAS MAGIC: One billionaire…one tomboy…one night of magic. What is truth, and who is real…and is love a luxury neither can afford? BE MY MIDNIGHT KISS: It's New Year's Eve...and now or never for these two hearts COOKING KISSING AND COWBOYS : What is home, and how do you know when you’ve found it? A snarky tattooed sprite and celebrity jock get glimpses beneath the other’s veneer, and what they find surprises them