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Reading and Craft Talk with Diane Wilson
Reading and Craft Talk with Diane Wilson
Date: Thursday, November 6th
Location: Mountain View Branch Library
Time: 2-3:30pm
Address: Mountain View Library, 120 Bragaw St, Anchorage, AK
Diane Wilson is the author of five books, including her memoir Spirit Car: Journey to a Dakota Past (2006), Beloved Child: A Dakota Way of Life (2011), and her 2021 novel, The Seed Keeper. Her recent essays on seed advocacy, food sovereignty, social justice and cultural recovery have been featured in anthologies including Kinship: Belonging in a World of Relations (2021), We Are Meant to Rise (2021), and A Good Time for the Truth (2016) as well as environmental publications such as Orion: Nature and Culture and Emergence. She is the former Executive Director of Dream of Wild Health, an Indigenous non-profit farm, and the Native American Food Sovereignty Alliance, a national coalition of tribes and organizations working to create sovereign food systems for Native people. She is enrolled on the Sicangu Oyate (Rosebud) reservation in South Dakota and is of Mdewakanton descent. She currently lives near the St. Croix River in Minnesota.
The Seed Keeper. Weaving together the voices of four indelible women, The Seed Keeper is a beautifully told story of reawakening, of remembering our original relationship to the seeds and, through them, to our ancestors. Rosalie Iron Wing has grown up in the woods with her father, Ray, until, one morning, he doesn’t return. Told she has no family, Rosalie is sent to live with a foster family in nearby Mankato ― where she meets rebellious Gaby Makespeace, in a friendship that transcends the damaged legacies they’ve inherited. Years later, Rosalie returns to her childhood home and begins to confront the past, on a search for family, identity, and a community where she can finally belong. In the process, she learns what it means to be descended from women with souls of iron ― women who have protected their families, their traditions, and a precious cache of seeds through generations of hardship and loss, through war and the insidious trauma of boarding schools.
This event is free and open to the public, but you must register to attend.
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