Braiding Sweetgrass for Young Adults: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
About this ebook
Braiding Sweetgrass for Young Adults offers an informative, inviting, and reflective reading experience for teens, young adults, and adults seeking accessible nonfiction. Through approachable language and thoughtful presentation, readers are encouraged to engage with ideas about ecological understanding, Indigenous knowledge, and our relationships with the natural world.
Featuring sidebars that help explain key concepts, reflection prompts that encourage deeper engagement, and passages designed to spark discussion, this adaptation invites readers to think, connect, and explore. Whether discovering these ideas for the first time or returning to them in a more accessible format, readers will find a welcoming path into a work that has resonated with audiences around the world.
Recognized with broad critical acclaim and numerous literary and educational honors, Braiding Sweetgrass for Young Adults has been praised as “a gift to our children” and “both an urgent, essential call to action and an uplifting love letter.”
Inside you'll find:
- An adaptation for teen and young adult readers by Monique Gray Smith
- Accessible nonfiction that welcomes both younger and adult readers
- Sidebars that clarify key concepts and terminology
- Reflection prompts that encourage discussion and deeper engagement
- A thoughtful reading experience that inspires reflection and conversation
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About the author
Robin Wall Kimmerer is a mother, scientist, decorated professor, and enrolled member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation. Her first book, Gathering Moss, was awarded the John Burroughs Medal for outstanding nature writing. Her writings have appeared in Orion, Whole Terrain, and numerous scientific journals. She lives in Syracuse, New York, where she is a SUNY Distinguished Teaching Professor of Environmental Biology and the founder and director of the Center for Native Peoples and the Environment.
Monique Gray Smith is a mom, an award winning, bestselling author, and professional consultant. Her recent writing includes Speaking our Truth: A Journey of Reconciliation, My Heart Fills with Happiness, You Hold Me Up, Lucy and Lola, Tilly: A Story of Hope and Resilience, When We Are Kind, I Hope, and Tilly and the Crazy Eights. Monique is Cree and Scottish and lives in Victoria, Canada.
Nicole Neidhardt is a Diné (Navajo) artist of Kiiyaa'áanii clan. She received her MFA from OCAD University in Toronto, Ontario, and a bachelor of fine arts with a business minor from the University of Victoria. She is the cofounder of the Innovative Young Indigenous Leaders Symposium, alongside Gina Mowatt, and is the cofounder of Groundswell Climate Collective, a group that is fighting the climate crisis through resiliency and artwork. She currently resides in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
