In Braiding Sweetgrass

and performer Jim Northrup at his shrewdest and funniest

The writings included range from the personal to the political

This boundary-blurring adventure will remind you to always dance like the ancestors are watching

Their Determination to Remain: A Cherokee Community's Resistance to the Trail of Tears in North Carolina Mojave In Braiding SweetgrassThe remarkable story of a North Carolina Cherokee community who avoided forced removal on the Trail of Tears During the 1838 forced Cherokee removal by the US government, a number of close knit Cherokee communities in the Southern Appalachian Mountains refused to relinquish their homelands, towns, and way of life. Using a variety of tactics, hundreds of Cherokees avoided the encroaching US Army and remained in the region. In his book Their