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Tag Archives: Braiding Sweetgrass
Words Make Worlds
–by Robin Wall Kimmerer (Jan Feb 01 2018) Writing as an indigenous plant woman I might say, “My plant relatives have shared healing knowledge with me and given me a root medicine.” Instead of ignoring our mutual relationship, I celebrate it. Yet … Continue reading
Convirtiéndonos en Gente de Maíz / Becoming Corn People
–por Robin Wall Kimmerer (Sep 7, 2017) [English below] La historia de nuestra relación con la Tierra está escrita con más veracidad en la tierra que en una página. Dura mucho tiempo ahí. La tierra recuerda lo que dijimos y lo que … Continue reading
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Allegiance to Gratitude
–by Robin Wall Kimmerer (Jun 08 2017) [ A Thanksgiving Address, a gift from the Haudenosaunee to the World. ] Today we have gathered and when we look upon the faces around us we see that the cycles if life continue. We … Continue reading
Convertirse En Indígena De Un Lugar / Becoming Indigenous To A Place
–por Robin Wall Kimmerer (Feb 24, 2017) [English below] Voy a sentarme con mi abuela la picea de Sitka para pensar. No soy de aquí, sólo soy una extraña que viene con agradecimiento y respeto y preguntas de cómo es que llegamos a … Continue reading
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Fearless Keepers of Water
–by Robin Wall Kimmerer (Feb 2, 2017) Being a good mother means teaching your children to care for the world, and so I’ve shown the girls how to grow a garden, how to prune an apple tree. The apple tree leans out … Continue reading
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Finding And Following Our Roots
–by Robin Wall Kimmerer (Jan 12, 2017) I go back to the first, cut an end free, and then duck it under the others, over, under, over, under. I’m separating a single wire in the scaffold that holds up the forest, but … Continue reading
La Sabiduría de los Nogales / The Wisdom of Pecan Trees
–por Robin Wall Kimmerer (Sep 30, 2016) [English below] L@s niñ@s, el idioma, las tierras: casi todo nos fue despojado, robado cuando no estabas mirando porque estabas tratando de sobrevivir. En vista de esta pérdida, una cosa que nuestra gente no podía … Continue reading
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Great Medicine For Each Other
–by Robin Wall Kimmerer (Sep o8, 2016) Hold out your hands and let me lay upon them a sheaf of freshly picked sweetgrass, loose and flowing, like newly washed hair. Golden green and glossy above, the stems are banded with purple and white where they meet … Continue reading
