Reclaiming the Honorable Harvest: Robin Kimmerer at TEDxSitka
Robin Kimmerer is a botanist, a writer and member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation. She teaches in the Department of Environment and Forest Biology at SUNY-ESF, where she is the director of the Center for Native Peoples and the Environment. She is active in efforts to respectfully bring the wisdom of traditional ecological knowledge together with the tools of western science for our shared concerns for sustainability. Kimmerer is the author of "Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses," which received a John Burroughs Medal. Her talk, "Reclaiming the Honorable Harvest: Indigenous Knowledge for a Sustainable Future," examines ways in which traditional indigenous approaches to the environment and harvest as practiced by the Potawatomi can teach us valuable lessons about healing our own relationship to the living earth.
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Read and be inspired by her 2013 book on this theme - Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants - a beautifully written, thoughtful book that I can't recommend highly enough!
@ninamo3523
5 жыл бұрын
Braiding Sweetgrass is even more wonderful when listened to. Her voice is mellifluous!
@heatheromeara5115
3 жыл бұрын
@@ninamo3523 Agreed! One of the most wonderful audiobooks ever made.
Here I am in 2020 and just reading a copy of this beautiful humans book snd love love loving the story of Skywoman Falling far more than Eve! Big respect and much love from over the pond 🇬🇧
What can we offer back in gratitude for the gifts of breath, nourishment, beauty, warmth, life? Let’s start answering this essential question. Thank you Robin Wall Kimmerer for asking us what really matters.
Dr. Kimmerer’s book has been a complete eye-opener for me. As a white native far removed from my tribe’s culture, I am trying everything in my being to reconnect with my ancestors in every way. This book has opened a new outlook on how I will approach my environmental stewardship; that is, intertwining my Indigenous heritage with tending to the natural world. Much if modern society is so far removed from the land that we are destroying it without knowing. In reading this book, I believe many people can learn how to become in-tune with nature.
@evil_radfem9162
3 ай бұрын
Thank you for keeping that culture alive
@talastra
Ай бұрын
It's been two years since you posted your comment. I truly wish you well in your journey and hope that it has gone well since then. I find the notion of living honorably to be the most resonant part of what Dr. Kimmerer writes and speaks of (which is not to say that the 1001 other amazing things she addresses are not amazing). When she speaks of living in alignment with ecological and human values, I think that speaks to so much of why people are otherwise so unhappy. It is not easy to be happy if how one acts in life is understood as a self-betrayal. For me, realizing that I am a member of the hyena clan (or "totem" or however else one expresses it) was the most important step in my reorientation and healing. Later, I encountered the Wolof proverb nit nitay garabam, which can be translated "the remedy for the human is to become more human." To become more human can be achieved by projecting membership in a nonhuman community, be it the bear, the wichetty grub, the hyena, the oak, the laughing man. This projected membership as a (spotted) hyena reconnects me to all the parts of myself alienated by my culture. It is not quite yet the fully indigenous notion, because membership in a nonhuman tribe implies gifts and responsibilities (like Dr. Kimmerer notes), obligations to other hyenas and all the others in the democracy of species. I can imagine that community and my obligations to it, but I don't have other members of the hyena clan placing demands on me. Anyway, again. I truly hope that you are able to reconnect as fully as you can. Nit nitay garabam; this is how we do not kill ourselves and millions of other species living in Grandmother Earth's house.
I am deeply moved by these teachings. Thank you for this.
I love this woman. Thank you for your gifts Robin.
Reading here book now and am about half way through. Some of this I have felt but had now words for. I am grateful she shares this knowledge and hope more will hear these lessons.
Watching this 3 weeks before Christmas. My family and friends are getting seeds for Christmas 🎄 💕
She is a gift. Please share this video.
Ms. Wall Kimmerer is a beautiful being, a teacher, a gifted writer, and one inspirational, smart woman. We would all do well to listen and be inspired, for "inspiration is rocket fuel for change. And we humans need to change. We are broken; our systems are mis-aligned, our institutions bow to the wrong gods. We must fall in love again with Creation.
Thank you Robin, your wisdom, the wisdom of the ancients, informs me and challenges me.
This video deserves to be brought up once again, after all of what is going on today with global warming and how bad our planet is getting thanks to our poor commitment of protecting it.
Is it possible to have the quality of this video upgraded? Robin has such important things to share and her words need to be heard. The audio is poor and so is the video quality. We need these words more than ever.
Robin Kimmerer is an eloquent and thought provoking sage in the tradition of native people, truly a wise woman. I wish more people would view this inspired talk. Did you know, she was part of the inspiration for the main character in Elizabeth Gilberts popular fiction, "The Signature of All Things'?? Bravo to all thoughfull and insightful ones like Robin and Elizabeth who share their gifts.
@schkay04
8 жыл бұрын
+Bruce Trueman not only for native people.
I hope this message can spread. Beautiful talk!
imagine if we practiced this much care about nature and the resources around us... ...how well we would treat each other
thank you for your work and sweet spirit!!
Now this is BEAUTIFUL......Love it
I love it. This feels in my heart like truth. Wonder if you could boost the volume a bit. It would share better.
Profound and inspiring. You and your knowledge are a gift to us all. I will share this gift with all of my loved ones.
I love listening to Robin Wall Kimmerer ! anyone ever translated her in french ? or other languages ? she is so inspiring !
She speaks about the truth of our ways of being and that the story itself is the truth that can be changed!
kimmerer for president
Her book is great too! Just bought it.
Lovely. Thank you
We love this!
The Native tribes of the America's got it right the first time around, that's for sure.
@talastra
Ай бұрын
They're still getting it right. It's a matter of the "rest of us" taking up the message.
brilliant!
Great philosophy
Y'all owe her ba fresher ted talk. 9 years??? We need to here from her now.
Here from my English class. Pcc where you at?
@bowietwombly5951
3 жыл бұрын
Portland community college?
The Apotheosis of Berryhood. :)
Volume is very low.
@perplexedprimate
5 жыл бұрын
Have patience... they do fix it (somewhat) after the first minute or so. Well worth waiting to hear.
Walk up to a cow, wait....that is a person, so ask before you butcher it, for it may be the last cow.
The berries at the grocery store do not evoke this, wild yes. Thats why no one knows what a real strawberry tastes like, tomato similarly.
Lmao