La versión en inglés de este ensayo, “Learning the Grammar of Animacy”, fue publicada originalmente el libro Braiding sweetgrass: indigenous wisdom, scientific knowledge and teachings plants, publicado por Milkweed Editions, 2013. Una previa se publicó The Leopold Outlook, 2012.

A river network is a typical completely open system formed by interconnected river channels. The interactions between the imports of a river (water and sediment) and the channel will cause the change of the channel patterns. This is actually a feedback between the erosion and the sedimentation states of the channel via an adjustment of the sedimentcarrying capability of the stream. This feedbac...