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Braiding Sweetgrass, Oct. 5, 2022

Every year, a diverse committee of CU faculty, staff, and students select the Buffs One Read book, a campaign that aims to build community through the experience of the entire campus reading one book. This year鈥檚 One Read is Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teaching of Plants by Dr. Robin Wall Kimmerer. Dr. Kimmerer is a scientist, professor, Director of the Center for Native Peoples & the Environment at SUNY-ESF, and enrolled member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation. In her work, she strives to combine her heritage (Citizen Potawatomi Nation) with her scientific and environmental work. 

Braiding Sweetgrass draws deeply from Indigenous American history and traditions and relays how this knowledge could be used to address our current climate crisis. The book emphasizes the interconnectedness of our world and encourages readers to better understand their local ecology and their place within it. Through learning about the environment that surrounds us, we help to create compassion for our nature that deserves reciprocity. Braiding Sweetgrass encourages us to give back to the Earth, for we have taken so much from it. In addition to supporting climate action, Dr. Kimmerer also uses her book to shed light on the historical and current treatment of Indigenous Americans, covering events such as the Trail of Tears and the seizure and pollution of Onondaga Lake. 

Get Involved

First-year students can pick up their copy of Braiding Sweetgrass at the University Bookstore. Other members of the campus community may borrow Braiding Sweetgrass in print, ebook, or audiobook form from the library or purchase a copy from the bookstore. Resources on how to engage with this Buffs One Read are linked below. 

  • Upcoming Buffs One Read Book Club meetups 

  • , 12:00-12:45p.m., Norlin Library E113

  • , 12:00-12:45p.m., Norlin Library E113

  • CEAS book club meetups

    1. Those interested in joining the CEAS book club should email Alexandra Voorhees (alexandra.voorhees@colorado.edu) to be added to the communications list and/or request copies of the book.

    2. The inaugural meeting will take place October 6 and will cover the first section of the book, pages 3-59. 

  • Intercultural Dialogues

    1. : October 19, 5:30-7:00p.m., C4C N320

    2. : November 2, 5:30-7:00p.m., C4C N320

  • Buffs One Read

  • Enroll in the Braiding Sweetgrass 

  • (open to undergraduates only)

If you鈥檇 like to suggest a topic or contribute a summary and links on a topic for a future DEI minute, please. To share other questions and comments, please email us at ceae-jedi@colorado.edu.  

 

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