Biologist, author, and activist Robin Wall Kimmerer is above all known for the landmark book Braiding Sweetgrass, which, a decade after its publication, continues to find new readers. In environmental discourse, Kimmerer’s books and essays have helped bridge the gap between scientific discourse and Indigenous perspectives.  In Kimmerer’s writing, the attempt to overcome this broken tradition forms part of a larger undertaking: to reclaim a lost way of living, feeling, and thinking that offers an alternative to the hegemonic culture of the West. As a proponent of agroecology, with one foot in the biological and ecological sciences and the other in suppressed regenerative knowledge traditions, Kimmerer offers an alternative perspective that challenges capitalism — the gift economy.