Native Americans

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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