In Braiding Sweetgrass, Robin Wall Kimmerer makes a powerful case for a return to the indigenous understanding of the land, based on careful stewardship, deep knowledge, and reciprocity. When we know the detail of the places we inhabit—when we tend them with our own hands and walk them with our own feet—we enter into a conversation with our places that is mutually nourishing. We learn to listen to the ways in which they speak to us, and to find a way to reply so that they can understand. This congress is a series of gifts shared, rather than any kind of simple transaction. Behind it all is a
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