Braiding Sweetgrass

Kimmerer, a Potawatomi professor and enrolled member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation, sets Indigenous knowledge beside Western science to understand plants. She writes about her own work with plants and about reconnecting with her people’s traditions, starting from the Skywoman story adapted from oral tradition. The book has appeared on several bestseller lists. Jazmina Barrera read it while planting a vegetable garden and became obsessed for a while.