Adapted by Rebecca Stefoff

"Erdrich's poems are beautiful and brave explorations of the depths of national identities and the real people who live them

Flickering through the chaos are signs of increasing repression: a shaken Cedar witnesses a family wrenched apart when police violently drag a mother from her husband and child in a parking lot

Family stories from seven generations of weavers lend charm and special insights

Margaret Noodin

Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants violence Adapted by Rebecca StefoffAs a botanist, Robin Wall Kimmerer has been trained to ask questions of nature with the tools of science. As a member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation, she embraces the notion that plants and animals are our oldest teachers. In Braiding Sweetgrass, Kimmerer brings these two lenses of knowledge together to take us on "a journey that is every bit as mythic as it is scientific, as sacred as it is historical, as clever as it is wise" (Elizabeth Gilbert).