Woven together with excerpts from Robin Wall Kimmerer's seminal "Braiding Sweetgrass," this immersive short film grounds viewers into concepts of indigenous wisdom, the power of spending uninterrupted time in nature, the spiritual dimension of environmental work, and how joy is an essential ingredient to our activism.
Through the experience of this video, hopefully, many will consider that it is valid, powerful, and perhaps even our birthright to offer joy to the environmental movement — and the earth at large.
This video was created under official permissions from Milkweed Editions to use Kimmerer's excerpts and is currently housed under The Resilient Activist's website at theresilientactivist.org/i-must-return-the-gift/.