April 28, 2023

Robin Wall Kimmerer on Attentiveness and Alliances

25 minutes

On Earth Day this year, Our Land Senior Producer Laura Paskus sat down with author and professor Robin Wall Kimmerer (Potawatomi), who was in Albuquerque to deliver the Leopold Writing Program’s annual lecture.

In the conversation you’re about to hear, Dr. Kimmerer talks about many of the themes in her best-selling and beloved book, Braiding Sweetgrass. We spoke outside on a lovely spring morning in the North Valley. That means you might hear an occasional bird … or airplane. And at the very end of the conversation,

you’ll hear a group of people walking past us and talking. We decided to leave that part of the conversation in the podcast, even though it doesn’t sound perfect. That’s because we want to make sure you all hear the words Dr. Kimmerer shared, about her hopes when it comes to settler society being allies to the resurgence of indigenous knowledge and wisdom.

Dr. Kimmerer’s books and other books and authors mentioned in the interview:

Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses, Robin Wall Kimmerer

Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants, Robin Wall Kimmerer

The Last Unicorn: A Search for One of Earth’s Rarest Creatures, William deBuys

Joy Harjo https://www.joyharjo.com/

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