Robin Wall Kimmerer is a scientist and writer. She is a member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation, a professor of botany, and the founding director of the Center for Native Peoples and the Environment at the SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry. Her latest book, “Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of pPants,” was released in 2013 and was awarded the Sigurd Olson Nature Writing Award.
This series is the multigenerational story of a Coast Miwok family’s eviction from their ancestral home and one woman’s effort to bring the living history of her family back to the land.
