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Braiding Sweetgrass for Young Adults: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants T Z Layton "Paola Santiago is a whip-smartDrawing from her experiences as an Indigenous scientist, botanist Robin Wall Kimmerer demonstrated how all living thingsfrom strawberries and witch hazel to water lilies and lichenprovide us with gifts and lessons every day in her best selling book Braiding Sweetgrass. Adapted for young adults by Monique Gray Smith, this new edition reinforces how wider ecological understanding stems from listening to the earths oldest teachers: the plants around us.