Starting with Kimmerer's chapter on the gift of strawberries, do you think thestories of an indigenous plant biologist can tell us about our culture and about advertising? Did you learn anything from this reading? What might you take from this reading? You may wish to consider what stories about consumer culture are not being told? How might the idea of an item being a "gift" or (not being a gift, but something we deserve), shape the way we use goods? Do you think there are possibilities of recentreing the land in our understanding of how we consume? Is there a gift that you have received in your life (like a strawberry) that makes you rethink the commodity economy?

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