Perennial Ceremony - Lessons and Gifts From a Dakota Garden

"Travel through a garden's seasons toward healing, reclamation, and wholeness--for us, and for our beloved relative, the Earth. In this rich collection of prose, poetry, and recipes, Teresa Peterson shares how she found refuge from the struggle to reconcile her Christianity and Dakota spirituality, discovering solace and ceremony in communing with the earth. Perennial Ceremony brings us into this relationship, as Peterson guides us through the Dakota seasons to impart lessons from her life as a gardener, gatherer, and lover of the land"--

List of contents

Contents
Introduction: Gardening Is Ceremony
Wetu Spring: The Time of Blood
Bdoketu Summer: The Time of the Potato
Ptäyetu Fall: The Time of the Otter
Waniyetu Winter: The Time When the Snow Lives
Lessons and Gifts to Consider and Cultivate
Further Reading and Resources
Acknowledgments

About the author

Teresa Peterson, Utuhu Cisti¿na Wi¿, is Sisseton Wahpeton Dakota and citizen of the Upper Sioux Community. She is author, with her uncle Walter LaBatte Jr., of Voices from Pejuhutazizi: Dakota Stories and Storytellers. She also wrote the children’s book Grasshopper Girl and is a contributor to Voices Rising: Native Women Writers.

Product details

• Authors: Teresa Peterson
• Publisher: University Of Minnesota Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.05.2024
• EAN: 9781517917029
• ISBN: 978-1-5179-1702-9
• No. of pages: 224
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Biographies, autobiographies; Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Folklore