{"product_id":"perennial-ceremony-lessons-and-gifts-from-a-dakota-garden-hardback-9781517917029","title":"Perennial Ceremony; Lessons and Gifts from a Dakota Garden (Hardback) 9781517917029","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003ePerennial Ceremony\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eLessons and Gifts from a Dakota Garden\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eTeresa Peterson (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781517917029\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 18 June 2024\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e224 pages, 34 black and white illustrations\u003cbr\u003e21.6 x 13.3 x 1.8 cm, 0.368 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e \"\u003ci\u003ePerennial Ceremony\u003c\/i\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eA Council of Dolls\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e   \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \"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 \u003ci\u003eThe Seed Keeper\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e   \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \"Full of Indigenous knowledge, family stories, and tasty recipes, \u003ci\u003ePerennial Ceremony\u003c\/i\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eOriginal Local: Indigenous Foods, Stories, and Recipes from the Upper Midwest\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e   \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \"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 \u003ci\u003ePlants Have So Much to Give Us, All We Have to Do Is Ask: Anishinaabe Botanical Teachings\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e   \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \"From a decolonial viewpoint, Peterson honors life and all relations in her daily gardening practice. Her writing is intimate, warm, and thought-provoking, as she integrates social commentary into her reflections about family and community and our shared responsibility for each other.\"-\u003ci\u003eColors of Influence\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e   \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \"With generosity and warmth, Peterson, a citizen of the Upper Sioux Community, invites readers to her land, garden, and kitchen. Peterson has a loving, ethical, encyclopedic knowledge of the land and the living things she calls ‘relatives.’\"-\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e   \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \"Through stories, memories, recipes, essays and poems, Peterson lovingly honors healing and wholeness through the seasonal ceremonies of the everyday.\"-\u003ci\u003eMs. Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e   \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \"\u003ci\u003ePerennial Ceremony\u003c\/i\u003e is a casual conversation about environmental ecology, occasionally spiritual, always practical. It is a beautiful, slim volume well produced by the University of Minnesota Press.\"-\u003ci\u003eChronicle Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e   \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \"Delicately weaving together poetry, prose, and recipes for dishes like Wild Rice, Roast, and Hominy for a Crowd and Zucchini Brownies, Peterson offers an easily devoured glimpse into mitakuye owasin-the Dakota way of living and being in deep relationship with our natural relatives: land, plants, and water.\"-\u003ci\u003eCivil Eats\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e   \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \"In tender, deliberate prose, Peterson shares her experience of blending her Christian faith with her Dakota background. Her stories, recipes, and advice provide inspiration for gardeners, cooks, writers, and anyone seeking a closer connection to nature.\"-\u003ci\u003eElectric Literature\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"[Peterson] writes presciently on a range of topics with grace, nuance, and honesty. She’s as equally comfortable discussing legacies of Indian boarding schools and negative consequences of increasing loss of prairie potholes as she is with shelling \u003ci\u003ewamnaheza\u003c\/i\u003e, an Indigenous variety of corn.\" -\u003ci\u003eRamsey County Historical Society\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eTravel through a garden’s seasons toward healing, reclamation, and wholeness-for us, and for our beloved relative, the Earth\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e   \u003cp\u003e 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. Observing and embracing the cycles of her garden, she awakens to the constant affirmation that healing and wellness can be attained through a deep relationship with land, plants, and waters. Dakota people call this way of seeing and being in the world \u003ci\u003emitakuye owasin: \u003c\/i\u003eall my relations. \u003ci\u003ePerennial Ceremony\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e   \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e We see the awakening of \u003ci\u003eWetu\u003c\/i\u003e (spring), a transitional time when nature comes alive and sweet sap flows from maples, and the imperfect splendor of \u003ci\u003eBdoketu\u003c\/i\u003e (summer), when rain becomes a needed and nourishing gift. We share in the harvesting wisdom of \u003ci\u003ePtaŋyetu\u003c\/i\u003e (fall), a time to savor daylight and reap the garden’s abundance, and the restorative solitude of \u003ci\u003eWaniyetu\u003c\/i\u003e (winter), when snow blankets the landscape and sharpens every sound. Through it all, Peterson walks with us along the path that both divides and joins Christian doctrine, everyday spiritual experience, and the healing powers of Indigenous wisdom and spirituality. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e   \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e In this intimate seasonal cycle, we learn how the garden becomes a healing balm. Peterson teaches us how ceremony may be found there: how in the vegetables and flowers, the woods, the hillsides, the river valley-even in the feeding of friends and family-we can reclaim and honor our relationship with Mother Earth. She encourages us to bring perennial ceremony into our own lives, inviting us on a journey that brings us full circle to \u003ci\u003emakoce kiŋ mitakuye: \u003c\/i\u003ethe land is my relative. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e Contents \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Introduction: Gardening Is Ceremony \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eWetu\u003c\/i\u003e Spring: The Time of Blood \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eBdoketu\u003c\/i\u003e Summer: The Time of the Potato \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003ePtaŋyetu\u003c\/i\u003e Fall: The Time of the Otter \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eWaniyetu\u003c\/i\u003e Winter: The Time When the Snow Lives \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Lessons and Gifts to Consider and Cultivate \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Further Reading and Resources \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Acknowledgments \u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Univ Of Minnesota Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52743045120280,"sku":"9781517917029","price":18.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/perennial-ceremony-lessons-and-gifts-from-a-dakota-garden-hardback-9781517917029","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}