![]() ![]() Kimmerer affirms the value of mothers and teachers as crucial to the wellbeing of any healthy community, and as essential for maintaining any hope for a better future. Throughout the book, Kimmerer connects the caring aspect of motherhood to the idea of teaching, particularly as she describes Indigenous traditions regarding women’s roles in a community-one describes a woman as first walking the Way of the Daughter, then the Way of the Mother, and finally the Way of the Teacher-and through Robin’s own experiences teaching at a university. ![]() ![]() She also often references her own daughters, Linden and Larkin, and her struggles to be a good mother to them. She first introduces the idea of motherhood with the creation story of Skywoman, who was pregnant when she first fell to earth. Braiding Sweetgrass contains many autobiographical details about Robin Wall Kimmerer’s own life, particularly as they pertain to her work as a mother and teacher. ![]()
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