Black Elk gave us countless prayers of thanksgiving from the Lakota Way ... Yet the land not only gives thanks, Kimmerer argues in Braiding Sweetgrass, but also love, despite how we act.

While writing “Braiding Sweetgrass,” Kimmerer wanted to describe the significance of the Haudenosaunee’s Thanksgiving address, but wasn’t sure she should broadcast those sacred beliefs.

Again, not from that cultural appropriate way of Thanksgiving, but true giving thanks. An interior page from Braiding Sweetgrass for Young Adults, adapted by Monique Gray Smith and illustrated ...