by Rich Wandschneider | Jan 15, 2025 | Robin Kimmerer, Serviceberry
A friend handed me a copy of Robin Wall Kimmerer’s slight new book, The Serviceberry. I’d been meaning to get the book, but it had been backordered over Christmas, so I accepted the gift gladly, and asked how she’d liked it. “Nice, but unrealistic,” she said. I read...
by Rich Wandschneider | Nov 30, 2020 | epidemic disease, First thanksgiving, Nez Perce, Robin Kimmerer, Salmon people, Shannon Wheeler, smallpox, Snake River dams, Sweetgrass
Several people forwarded me a link to “Salmon People: A tribe’s decades-long fight to take down the Lower Snake River dams and restore a way of life,” a fine article on the lower Snake River dams by Linda Mapes, published in the Seattle Times on Sunday, November 29....
by Rich Wandschneider | Mar 11, 2020 | Braiding Sweetgrass, coronavirus, Robin Kimmerer
The book—and the evening discussion of Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants on Monday night is lodged in my mind. And it bumps up against today’s headlines again and again. “The air in China is cleaner than it’s been...
by Rich Wandschneider | Mar 10, 2020 | Braiding Sweetgrass, Onondaga, Robin Kimmerer
By my count, there were 14 of us at the Josephy Center talking about Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants, writer Robin Kemmerer’s prayer that we look through scientific classification and dissection to indigenous...
