Land’s meaning survived when every other possession was stripped away

Evidence

Children, language, lands: almost everything was stripped away, stolen when you weren’t looking because you were trying to stay alive. In the face of such loss, one thing our people could not surrender was the meaning of land. — Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass, 70

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Material artifacts left on abandoned land encode departed human hopes — Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac: With Other…, 208; Reciprocity with the land is possible even where land and nature are absent — Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom,…, 867

Broader Connections

• Reciprocity with the land is possible even where land and nature are absent #complicates (0.75) — Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass, 867