Planting sweetgrass -- Skywoman falling -- The council of pecans -- The gift of strawberries -- An offering -- Asters and goldenrod -- Learning the grammar of animacy -- Tending sweetgrass -- Maple sugar moon -- Witch hazel -- A mother's work -- The consolation of water lilies -- Allegiance to gratitude -- Picking sweetgrass -- Epiphany in the beans -- The three sisters -- Wisgaak Gokpenagen: A Black Ash basket -- Mishkos Kenomagwen: The teachings of grass -- Maple Nation: A citizenship guide -- The honorable harvest -- Braiding sweetgrass -- In the footsteps of Nanabozho: Becoming indigenous to place -- The sound of silverbells -- Sitting in a circle -- Burning cascade head -- Putting down roots -- Umbilicaria: The belly button of the world -- Old-growth children -- Witness to the rain -- Burning sweetgrass -- Windigo footprints -- The sacred and the superfund -- People of corn, people of light -- Collateral damage -- Shkitagen: People of the seventh fire -- Defeating Windigo -- Epilogue: Returning the gift.

Read by the author.

An inspired weaving of indigenous knowledge, plant science, and personal narrative from a distinguished professor of science and a Native American whose previous book, Gathering Moss, was awarded the John Burroughs Medal for outstanding nature writing.

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