Incorporate Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer into your American Literature curriculum as an example of Indigenous literature, poetry, and memoir. This book truly “has it all”! Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer (Citizen Potawatomi Nation) Last year, Victoria from @floury_words recommended several Indigenous texts for Secondary ELA. Among them was Braiding Sweetgrass. Here’s what Victoria said: The Earth on Turtle’s Back/ Skywoman Falling from Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer (Citizen Potawatomi Nation)  Sadly, American Literature classes are generally lacking in the Indigenous to the Americas department. Semesters may begin with Onondaga myth “The Earth on Turtle’s Back” but they don’t branch into contemporary Indigenous writing. In her beautiful ode to Indigenous knowledge, Braiding Sweetgrass, Robin Wall Kimmerer, an enrolled member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation, uses an adaptation of the Shenandoah and George […]