as well as indigenous seed savers and keepers

sweat lodges

hybrid aesthetic to her first book

and tensions over “real Indian-ness” emerge

and advocates of the local food and slow food movements

Cedar Songs Dakota as well as indigenous seedIn the 1900s, most Indian children in the United States and Canada were involuntarily taken from their families by state and federal governments and placed in Indian boarding schools. Keewaydinoquay Peschel was able to escape this fate. This book offers a rare glimpse into what one little girl did with this incredible gift she had been given. She was a child of mixed cultures and religions with an insatiable curiosity about how and why things work.