Braiding Sweetgrass for Young Adults Kimm Topping First we collect the necessary

First we collect the necessary tools

Emily and Navin move with their mother to the home of her deceased great-grandfather

One summer morning

stares at everybody and never listens

Ninja guides you to choose your warrior fate

Braiding Sweetgrass for Young Adults Kimm Topping First we collect the necessaryI could hand you a braid of sweetgrass as thick and shining as the braid that hung down my grandmothers back. But it is not mine to give, nor yours to take. Wiingaashk belongs to herself. I offer, in her place, a braid of stories meant to heal our relationship with the world. As a botanist, Robin Wall Kimmerer is trained to use the tools of science to ask questions of nature. As a member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation, she embraces plants and