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

Margaret Noodin

metaphor that makes her work both profound and accessible

and resplendent drama…A work of distinct luminosity…Through the personalities and predicaments of her many charismatic characters

On an Ojibwe reservation called Languille Lake

Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants violence "Erdrich's poems are beautiful andAs 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).