“Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants”
2025 Harold Stoner Clark Lecture
Robin Wall Kimmerer is a mother, scientist, professor, MacArthur Fellow, enrolled member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation and author of Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants.
Her lecture will explore the dominant themes of Braiding Sweetgrass, which include cultivation of a reciprocal relationship with the living world. Listeners will be invited to consider what we might learn if we understood plants as our teachers.
Kimmerer, a SUNY Distinguished Teaching Professor of Environmental Biology, is the founder and director of the Center for Native Peoples and the Environment, whose mission is to create programs that draw on the wisdom of Indigenous and scientific knowledge for our shared goals of sustainability. She is interested not only in restoration of ecological communities, but also in restoration of our relationships to land.
Her newest book, The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World, offers a vision for how to orient our lives around gratitude, reciprocity and community, based on the lessons of the natural world.
The lecture is free, but registration is requested. To register, visit https://bit.ly/3DBGjuI. Seating is first come, first served. The lecture also will be livestreamed at CalLutheran.edu/live.