Tall Tales | The Seed Keeper

Date and Time for this Past Event

• Saturday, Oct 19, 2024  10:30am - 11:30am

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A book program designed to help us learn about the many varied cultures, landscapes, and stories of the American West past and present. Before the program, read the selected book, then join us as we gather together to engage in meaningful conversations and shared experiences.

Artists Frederic Remington & Charles Russell both lamented a west that had passed, as evidenced through their romanticized paintings of cowboys working the range and Plains Indian families moving camp. Through their artwork, they tried to hold on to a part of the nation’s history that, at the height of each of their careers, was quickly transforming. But what of the efforts to recover the painful truths about our nation’s past? Writer Diane Wilson (Dakhóta) reclaims some of that history through a novel inspired by the aftermath of the U.S.–Dakota War in 1862.

Part fiction, part history, part treatise, part nonfiction, The Seed Keeper weaves together these elements in the story of Rosalie Iron Wing, as she re-discovers her family, her history, and her sacred tradition. Wilson weaves back and forth from Rosalie’s ancestors in the mid-1800s to her present in 2002, giving wider context to her Dakota heritage.

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