Skywoman’s daughter’s body gave people their staple food plants

Evidence

The seeds, though, we did not provide for ourselves. When Skywoman buried her beloved daughter in the earth, the plants that are special gifts to the people sprang from her body. Tobacco grew from her head. From her hair, sweetgrass. Her heart gave us the strawberry. From her breasts grew corn, from her belly the squash, and we see in her hands the long-fingered clusters of beans. — Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass, 421

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• XREF: connects to: The strawberry grew from Skywoman’s daughter’s heart in Potawatomi creation — Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom,…, 87