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Episode: The Origins of âBraiding Sweetgrassâ
Description: Robin Wall Kimmerer is an unlikely literary star. A botanist by trainingâa specialist in mossâshe spent much of her career at the State University of New Yorkâs College of Environmental Science and Forestry. But, when she was well established in her academic work, having âdone the things you need to do to get tenure,â she launched into a different kind of writing; her new style sought to bridge the divide between Western science and Indigenous teachings she had learned, as a member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation, about the connections between people, the land, plants, and animals. T...