BIPOC Outdoors Book List

Mar 17

Written By Braided Seeds

Here are our top picks of texts full of Black and Indigenous wisdom and voices on our rich heritage within the outdoors.

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Farming While Black by Leah Penniman
Freedom Farmers by Monica M. White
Undrowned: Black Feminist Lessons from Marine Mammals by Dr. Alexis Pauline Gumbs
In Search of Our Mother’s Gardens: Womanist Prose by Alice Walker
The Chicken Chronicles: Sitting with the Angels Who Have Returned with My Memories by Alice Walker
Shalom and the Community of Creation by Randy Woodley
Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer
We Are Each Others’ Harvest: Celebrating African American Farmers, Land and Legacy by Natalie Baszile
Undercurrents of Power: Aquatic Culture in the African Diaspora by Kevin Dawson

#shopblack or borrow the books from your local library

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