Saving the World
Saving the World
Nick Vander Puy
Braiding Sweetgrass with Robin Wall Kimmerer
41 minutes Posted Jul 26, 2021 at 3:50 am.
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Braiding Sweetgrass is a metaphor for Dr. Robin Wall Kimmerer's weaving together her Potowatomie teachings with western scientific training and her own being as a human. Braiding is better done in concert with others. Dr. Kimmerer tells us, "For all of us, becoming indigenous to a place means living as if your children's future mattered, to take care of the land as if our lives, both material and spiritual, depended on it. To be native to a place we must learn to speak its language ... " Nick Vander Puy from the Superior Broadcast Network reports.