Perennial Ceremony: Lessons and Gifts from a Dakota Garden

Perennial Ceremony: Lessons and Gifts from a Dakota GardenTravel through a garden's seasons toward healing, reclamation, and wholeness for us, and for our beloved relative, the Earth. In this generous 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. Observing and embracing the cycles of her garden, she awakens to the constant affirmation

Will the Little People answer Curtis’s call

as Weeks does in this book

a disorganized tribal government

Sameer Farooq

Her detailed cultural descriptions were intended less for purposes of cultural preservation than for practical application

historical analysis

people become passive and confused

indigenous peoples controlled the vast majority of the continent while European colonies of the Atlantic World were largely confined to the eastern seaboard

the school fulfilled a goal that she had worked toward for years: to create an educational system that would enable Native children “never to forget who they were

Sustenance

wintry plains of Montana

language is pushed to its dark edges