Braiding Sweetgrass - Robin Wall Kimmerer

- Skywoman Falling Perhaps the Skywoman story endures because we too are always falling. Our lives, both personal and collective, share her trajectory.

Whether we jump or are pushed, or the edge of the known world just crumbles at our feet, we fall, spinning into someplace new and unexpected. Despite our fears of falling, the gifts of the world stand by to catch us.

But in Native ways of knowing, human people are often referred to as “the younger brothers of Creation.” We say that humans have th...