blog post #5

Kaylen Kozlowski     

Professor Melissa Santos

ENG-102-037

23 February 2018

Blog Post #5

            In the beginning of this chapter, the author discusses the different groups of native animals, reptiles, plants, fish and people. It discusses the 25 different indigenous cultures that originally lived in the Sonoran Desert area and the different songs and traditions they have. As I read this chapter I was able to connect it back to “Braiding Sweetgrass” and how through that book, Kimmerer gave me the ability to envision the way the indigenous people lived.

            As Salmon describes the different traditions, like the deer song, it brought me back to not only when we read “Braiding Sweetgrass”, it also reminded me of my childhood. The deer song was passed down from generation, and it made me think of how my parents, aunts, uncles and close family friends used to sing to me as a child. Though some of the deer songs were hunting songs and had a different meaning from the songs that were sang to me when I was little it still reminded me of my childhood. When I grow older and eventually have nieces and nephews, I can see myself singing these songs to them just like my aunts and uncles sang them to me. The deer songs from “Eating the Landscape” remind me of the songs that my parents, relatives and close family friends used to sing to me.