Braiding Sweetgrass: Resources For Educators

Our partners across campus have helped compile the resources below. If you have additional resources to highlight, please reach out to commonbook@ku.edu.

2021-22 KU Common Book Library Guide

KU Libraries has created an evolving Braiding Sweetgrass Library Guide. Readers can use the scholarship within the guide as an introduction to selected themes drawn from the book or in support of their research projects.

Course Materials for Adaptation

A wide range of courses across the disciplines plan to incorporate Braiding Sweetgrass over the 2021-22 academic year. A few of those departments have kindly agreed to share their planned material here. These lesson plans and assignment prompts are to be considered open access. Please feel free to adapt as you see fit.

• ENGL 101/102 - See a range of plans and materials by accessing this linked folder.
• UNIV 101 - See a two-day lesson plan and related materials by accessing this linked folder.

If you plan to use the book and would like to contribute your materials to this list, please reach out to commonbook@ku.edu.

Land Acknowledgement

The following is the 2019 Land Acknowledgment that the Provost released:

The University of Kansas resides on the homelands of the Kaw, Osage, and Shawnee peoples. Specifically the university is located on land ceded in an 1825 treaty with the Kaw Nation and a later treaty with the Shawnee, enforced in 1854. This land acknowledgement recognizes that Native Americans are traditional guardians of the land and that there is an enduring relationship between Native peoples and these traditional territories.

It recognizes, supports, and advocates for the sovereignty of the four federally recognized tribes of Kansas, the Prairie Band Potawatomie, the Kickapoo in Kansas, the Sac and Fox of Missouri in Kansas and Nebraska, and the Iowa Tribe of Kansas and Nebraska. To provide a fuller, better-informed account of our regional and national history, several KU offices, including the School of Social Welfare, already provide a land acknowledgement on their websites.

The land acknowledgement is one of many ways we, as a community, can do better and be better, not just on a single day of the year, but on every day of the year.

This video was commissioned by The Commons at the University of Kansas, in conjunction with Dr. Kimmerer's April 1, 2021 lecture. In the video, Robin Wall Kimmerer takes us on a guided nature tour of Clark Reservation State Park in Jamesville, NY as Spring welcomes back migrating creatures and sends a message to wake up those who have taken a Winter rest. 

This video was part of the virtual event series in the 2021 FNSA Powwow & Indigenous Cultures Festival. In the video, Chef Raven Naramore guides us on an early spring foraging adventure as she finds spring delights that you can find in forests, meadows, and even your own neighborhood!