Perennial Ceremony: Lessons and Gifts from a Dakota Garden

Author:   Teresa Peterson
Publisher:   University of Minnesota Press
ISBN:  

9781517917029


Pages:   224
Publication Date:   18 June 2024
Format:   Hardback
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Author:   Teresa Peterson
Publisher:   University of Minnesota Press
Imprint:   University of Minnesota Press
Dimensions:   Width: 13.30cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 21.60cm
Weight:   0.368kg
ISBN:  

9781517917029


ISBN 10:   1517917026
Pages:   224
Publication Date:   18 June 2024
Audience:   General/trade ,  Professional and scholarly ,  General ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Contents Introduction: Gardening Is Ceremony Wetu Spring: The Time of Blood Bdoketu Summer: The Time of the Potato Ptaŋyetu 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

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"""Perennial Ceremony is a powerful, necessary gift for our times. Teresa Peterson writes with passionate grace of Dakota practices and teachings that nourish our world and transformed her life. In a volume abundant with compassion, humor, wisdom, and courage, she offers a path through the disastrous fires of our own making. A book I'll return to again and again for solace, guidance, delectable recipes, and most of all: inspiration."" —Mona Susan Power, author of A Council of Dolls ""Equally inspiring for gardeners and cooks and readers who love a good story, Teresa Peterson’s generous-hearted sharing of her spiritual journey through gardening is both nourishing and uplifting. Her tender gleaning of practical, seasonal wisdom invites us to remember a relationship with the land that is ceremony, a life-sustaining, daily communion with creation."" —Diane Wilson, author of The Seed Keeper  "


"""Perennial Ceremony is a powerful, necessary gift for our times. Teresa Peterson writes with passionate grace of Dakota practices and teachings that nourish our world and transformed her life. With compassion, humor, wisdom, and courage, she offers a path through the disastrous fires of our own making. A book I'll return to again and again for solace, guidance, delectable recipes, and most of all: inspiration.""—Mona Susan Power, author of A Council of Dolls   ""Equally inspiring for gardeners and cooks and readers who love a good story, Teresa Peterson’s generous-hearted sharing of her spiritual journey through gardening is both nourishing and uplifting. Her tender gleaning of practical, seasonal wisdom invites us to remember a relationship with the land that is ceremony, a life-sustaining, daily communion with creation.""—Diane Wilson, author of The Seed Keeper   ""Full of Indigenous knowledge, family stories, and tasty recipes, Perennial Ceremony is a love letter to Dakota homeland. In poetic passages and precise prose, Teresa Peterson teaches us what it means to acknowledge plants, creatures, water, and the earth as our relatives. Here is a circle of respect enacted through a life story of eating and exploring, grieving and healing, and the momentum of continual, seasonal return. This book will be cherished for all the delights it offers and all the wisdom it bestows.""—Heid E. Erdrich, author of Original Local: Indigenous Foods, Stories, and Recipes from the Upper Midwest   ""Sharing relatable recipes containing easily procured ingredients, Teresa Peterson tells intergenerational stories of life, loss, ceremony, change, hurt, and healing. Through her narrative, she brings readers into her garden, where they meet her family, work the soil, harvest a cornucopia of nourishing ingredients, and contemplate the lives and various doings of our winged, rooted, and four-legged relatives.""—Wendy Makoons Geniusz, editor of Plants Have So Much to Give Us, All We Have to Do Is Ask: Anishinaabe Botanical Teachings  "


"""Perennial Ceremony is a powerful, necessary gift for our times. Teresa Peterson writes with passionate grace of Dakota practices and teachings that nourish our world and transformed her life. With compassion, humor, wisdom, and courage, she offers a path through the disastrous fires of our own making. A book I'll return to again and again for solace, guidance, delectable recipes, and most of all: inspiration."" —Mona Susan Power, author of A Council of Dolls   ""Equally inspiring for gardeners and cooks and readers who love a good story, Teresa Peterson’s generous-hearted sharing of her spiritual journey through gardening is both nourishing and uplifting. Her tender gleaning of practical, seasonal wisdom invites us to remember a relationship with the land that is ceremony, a life-sustaining, daily communion with creation."" —Diane Wilson, author of The Seed Keeper   ""Full of Indigenous knowledge, family stories, and tasty recipes, Perennial Ceremony is a love letter to Dakota homeland. In poetic passages and precise prose, Teresa Peterson teaches us what it means to acknowledge plants, creatures, water, and the earth as our relatives. Here is a circle of respect enacted through a life story of eating and exploring, grieving and healing, and the momentum of continual, seasonal return. This book will be cherished for all the delights it offers and all the wisdom it bestows."" —Heid E. Erdrich, author of Original Local: Indigenous Foods, Stories, and Recipes from the Upper Midwest   ""Sharing relatable recipes containing easily procured ingredients, Teresa Peterson tells intergenerational stories of life, loss, ceremony, change, hurt, and healing. Through her narrative, she brings readers into her garden, where they meet her family, work the soil, harvest a cornucopia of nourishing ingredients, and contemplate the lives and various doings of our winged, rooted, and four-legged relatives."" —Wendy Makoons Geniusz, editor of Plants Have So Much to Give Us, All We Have to Do Is Ask: Anishinaabe Botanical Teachings  "


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Teresa Peterson, Utuhu Cistina 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.

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