XiLin’s Reviews > Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants > Status Update
XiLin
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“It has been said that people of the modern euros suffer a great sadness, a ‘species loneliness’—estrangement from the rest of Creation. We have built this isolation with our fear, with our arrogance, and with our homes brightly lit against the night. For a moment as we walked this road, those barriers dissolved and we began to relieve the loneliness and know each other again” (358). On salamander crossings
— Jan 21, 2026 08:48PM
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XiLin
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Windigo monsters in Anishinaabe legend, who aren’t born, but created, who suffers an eternal hunger, who takes humans with it with a bite
— Jan 16, 2026 07:31AM
XiLin
is on page 249 of 408
“Ceremony focused attention so that attention becomes intention” (249)
— Dec 08, 2025 05:57AM
XiLin
is on page 184 of 408
The Honorable Harvest; loved the description of rice harvesting in the Great Lakes and its “inefficiency,” only catching less than half of the rice into canoes and the remaining scattering into the water
“Know the ways of the ones who take care of you, so that you may take care of them” (183)
— Oct 17, 2025 03:02PM
“Know the ways of the ones who take care of you, so that you may take care of them” (183)
XiLin
is on page 66 of 408
“[Nanabozho] poured the water straight into the maple trees to dilute the syrup. Today, maple sap flows like a stream of water with only a trace of sweetness to remind the people both of possibility and of responsibility” (63).
— Sep 19, 2025 08:14PM
XiLin
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“It was through her actions of reciprocity, the give and take with the land, that the original immigrant became Indigenous”
I can already tell this is going to be amazing
— Sep 15, 2025 09:48AM
I can already tell this is going to be amazing
