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Warren Cariou

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Sweetgrass Stories: Listening for Animate Land

The Cambridge Journal of Postcolonial Literary Inquiry August 30, 2018 Warren Cariou 27 citations

This article examines Indigenous stories that reveal how the land communicates to humans through medicinal plants. The intention is to address a blind spot in new materialist theory, which Zoe Todd has criticized for its lack of attention to Indigenous forms and practices of relational materialism. The main focus of this essay is Indigenous narratives about the sacred plant sweetgrass (known as...