Preface --

Planting Sweetgrass: Skywoman falling ; The council of pecans ; The gift of strawberries ; An offering ; Asters and goldenrod ; Learning the grammar of animacy --

Tending Sweetgrass: Maple sugar moon ; Witch hazel ; A mother's work ; The consolation of water lilies ; Allegiance to gratitude --

Picking Sweetgrass: Epiphany in the beans ; The three sisters ; Wisgaak Gokpenagen : a black ash basket ; Mishkos Kenomagwen : the teachings of grass ; Maple nation : a citizenship guide ; The honorable harvest --

Braiding Sweetgrass: In the footsteps of Nanabozho : becoming indigenous to place ; The sound of silverbells ; Sitting in a circle ; Burning cascade head ; Putting down roots ; Umbilicaria : the belly button of the world ; Old-growth children ; Witness to the rain --

Burning Sweetgrass: Windigo footprints ; The sacred and the superfund ; People of corn, people of light ; Collateral damage ; Shkitagen : People of the seventh fire ; Defeating Windigo --

Epilogue: Returning the gift --

Notes ; Sources ; Acknowledgements.

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