Date/Time
Date(s) - September 23, 2021
7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
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Facilitators: Andy Townsend and Jenny Hunt
Series: July 8–December 9
Day: 2nd and 4th Thursdays (see schedule below)
Time: 7:00–8:30pm on Zoom
Registration: https://uucuc.breezechms.com/form/ddc5fa8781
This is suitable for high school−adults.
Participants are not required to have attended previous classes. This one is rich just as it is!
Jenny Hunt and Andy Townsend invite you to the third episode of UUCUC’s trilogy of Native American studies.
Our study will give insight into Native American ways and will offer an alternative way of thought and living that embraces the interconnection of all life on Planet Earth. It will show that the Indigenous people have survived and that much of their culture continues to serve them. It offers us an opportunity to view our relationship to all of Earth’s inhabitants in a more respectful and sustainable way.
We are reading Robin Wall Kimmerer’s Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants (2013, 384 pages). About the book: Braiding Sweetgrass. The book is widely available.
The author is a member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation who holds a PHD degree in Botany. She weaves her scientific and Native American knowledge and wisdom with her observations and intuitions into a beautiful poetic story of hope and sustainability.
Our study will give insight into Native American ways and will offer an alternative way of thought and living that embraces the interconnection of all life on Planet Earth. It will show that the Indigenous people have survived and that much of their culture continues to serve them. It offers us an opportunity to view our relationship to all of Earth’s inhabitants in a more respectful and sustainable way.
| Date | Chapters | Pages |
| Sept. 9, 2021 | Picking Sweetgrass: 1–3 | 121–155 |
| Sept. 23, 2021 | Picking Sweetgrass: 4–6 | 156–201 |
| Oct. 14, 2021 | Braiding Sweetgrass: 1–4 | 205–253 |
| Oct. 28, 2021 | Braiding Sweetgrass: 5–8 | 254–300 |
| Nov. 11, 2021 | Burning Sweetgrass: 1–3 | 303–347 |
| Dec. 9, 2021 (7-9p) | Burning Sweetgrass: 4–6 | 348–384 |