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Native American Gardening: Stories, Projects, and Recipes for Families (edition 1996)

by Michael J. Caduto (Author)

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Readers will learn about the relationships between people and the gardens of Earth, seed preservation, Native diets and meals, natural pest control, and the importance of the Circle of Life.
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Title:Native American Gardening: Stories, Projects, and Recipes for Families
Authors:Michael J. Caduto (Author)
Info:Fulcrum Publishing (1996), 176 pages
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Along with Caduto and Bruchac's Keeper series, Native American Gardening is dsigned to be part of an elementary-school practical science curriculum, either at school or home. I liked this one a lot: science is explicitly linked to culture and worldview; the fundamental perceptual unit is the ecology / community, not the organism or individual; cultural elements are presented as part of an integrated whole. That last is especially important: cultural stories don't make proper sense outside of their context, and Bruchac is careful to make sure that the stories are supported with all the knowledge that an inside-the-culture listener is expected to bring to the circle.

They call this a science text, but it could just as easily be a text about worldview, culture, or philosophy, depending on how one chose to spin it. Reading this one, I can't help but imagine all the lesson plans I could launch from this: it's rich, and highly usable.
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Every little thing is sent for something, and in that thing there should be happiness and the power to make happy. Like the grasses showing tender faces to each other, tis we should do.
--Black Elk, "Black Elk Speaks"
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In memory of Nanepashemet
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There was a man, long ago, who used to travel.
Preface: Kids take eagerly to gardening: it's outdoors, it involves dirt and shovels and it offers them something close to the power of the Creator.
Foreword: On Thanksgiving Day in 1992--during the five hundredth anniversary of Spanish arrival in the Americas--children fromm Pima and Maricopa tribal communities in Arizona shared a special feast.
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Combining the magical world of stories with gardening, Caduto and Bruchac provide information needed to pursue "Three Sisters" gardening: growing the traditional Native garden of corn, beans, and squash. Readers will learn about the relationships between people and the gardens of Earth, seed preservation, Native diets and meals, natural pest control, and the importance of the Circle of Life.
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