Nicole Asquith

Learning the Language of Flora

Have you ever been in a country where you’re learning the language and you find yourself constantly interrogating signs, commercials, etc., picking out the words you know and trying to decipher the others? That’s how I’ve felt ever since I started to learn to recognize the flora of the place where I now live, in…

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Becoming Indigenous to Place

In Robin Wall Kimmerer’s deeply moving book, Braiding Sweetgrass, there is one chapter that speaks to a longing at once personal and endemic to our culture at large. In this chapter – entitled “In the Footsteps of Nanabozho: Becoming Indigenous to Place” – she uses the Anishibaabe story of the First Man, Nanabozho, to explore…

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