Robin Wall Kimmerer, Reciprocity

[@dwightmaciv4789]

I could listen to her voice all day ❤ I would have have paid attention in school if she was my teacher 🎉

[@terrafarmer48]

Braiding Sweetgrass is one of my most favorite books and I listen and read it every spring. Love seeing Dr. Kimmerer speak! 🌼🌱

[@suedonn7996]

Loved the book, "Braiding Sweetgrass".

[@jandunn169]

Robin....I have been listening to Braiding Sweetgrass while I am watering my garden. As we wait for election results I think about your People and all of mine and pray to stand tall and stand for Mother Earth no matter what happens. We are still here ( I am Jewish and Northeastern woodlands or plains Indians according to my DNA tests) but my ancestors call to me to keep fighting for justice and reciprocity. Gindinawendimin!!!! Love you, and the hope and understanding you bring to us.

[@angelicaluberda5239]

"...not for our relatives." I absolutely love Robin Wall Kimmerer and I am so grateful she is offering guidance to us. It is such an honor existing at the same time as her.

[@Marymary-ik1bx]

This woman is a gift to the human race.

[@sharonpukis9440]

Yes, a gift to all living beings!!

[@acethelin6803]

pure medicine. redemptive knowledge

[@SonLightSparklingontheWaters]

A gentle, powerful presentation from a woman connected to the land of the Peacemaker. Robin suggests we speak of Nature not as 'it' but as 'kin', the plural of 'ki', thereby giving respect to beings with whom we share life. By changing our language, we change our minds and the way we act in this world.

[@terrafarmer48]

💚🌱🙏

[@lucygarcia7437]

My hero, too, for her love and insight across so many facets of culture.

[@enfasisenlaeducacion6074]

Thank you so much. Let's spread it out among the younger mainly.

[@rain2646]

I love her dearly always love to hear her voice

[@LearnWithUsOriginals]

She is one of my heroes

[@connieleach5563]

I am still reading the book. I love it. The way how is explained the love for the Earth remind me the love for the PACHAMAMA in quechua, the love for Mother Earth translate in English. In Perú we understand very similar the love for the land, the.love for the Earth in general.

[@ElJaf17]

A million kisses upon the hands of Dr Kimmerer. A true servant of life and all living.... things! haha. She mentions the need for a sophisticated protocol of various sorts for dealing with the notion of eating relatives and it reminded me of when I was child and had gut feelings that indigenous people are extremely intellectual despite being surrounded by notions that indigenous people are backwards, savages, barbarians etc. The best test of anything is time. I will always trust ancient wisdom over anything else, especially new science (typically funded by the we-know-whos)

[@gisl2159]

49:00 Yeah. I wish for more of that victory.

[@terrafarmer48]

Aqui in Spanish is Here. The language similarity is fascinating to me

[@ximono]

15:59 The Anishinaabe view is similar to Simone Weil's philosophy of obligations, rather than rights, including the obligation to help "offenders" because they are not well and in need of help. I'm probably misrepresenting her philosophy a bit, but the similarities with her philisophy in The Need for Roots are striking. She came from a completely different (but fascinating!) background, but she did have Plato as her "master". Simone Weil has convinced me that obligations is the more reasonable path. I think rights are misguided and potentially harmful, even human rights. So I'm not a fan of granting Mother Earth legal rights. It doesn't fix the underlying issue of our culture's worldview, and it just feels so backwards to drag Mother Nature into our legal arena to protect her from ourselves. I was a bit confused why she brought up all these examples towards the end, after having explained the much better Anishinaabe way earlier in the talk. They wouldn't have been impressed by what we're doing, would they? Instead of giving legal rights to nature, it is _we_ who should be given _obligations._ Not just to each other, but to all.

[@jasontoolan3816]

Use Kin, not It, for the life on this world. Save the It’s for bulldozers. Love it!

[@evanssolomon8575]

In my society every inaimate or animate being is either a she or he.

[@havenbastion]

The Earth doesn't care. That's an epistemic, ethical category mistake.

[@jandunn169]

You have no idea, because you are not Her