Indigenous harvesters asked botanists to test whether harvest methods caused sweetgrass decline.

Evidence

In many places, sweetgrass is disappearing from its historic locales, so the basket makers had a request for the botanists: to see if the different ways of harvesting might be the cause of sweetgrass’s leaving. — Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass, 548

Categorization

• SEED: A case where traditional knowledge poses the question and Western science supplies the method — a ready template for cross-course integrative writing on who sets research agendas.