The First Blade of Sweetgrass Lacrosse Looking closer

Looking closer

The new model she advocates is based on her experiences growing up in a Mi’kmaw community

two Inuit communities are artificially divided on maps

As they hatch

The First Blade of Sweetgrass Lacrosse Looking closerIn this Own Voices Native American picture book, a modern Wabanaki girl is excited to accompany her grandmother for the first time to harvest sweetgrass for basket making. She must overcome her impatience while learning to distinguish sweetgrass from other salt marsh grasses, but slowly the spirit and peace of her surroundings speak to her, and she gathers sweetgrass as her ancestors have done for centuries, leaving the first blade she sees to grow