About the Event

In this presentation, Diane explores the cultural and historical importance of our Indigenous seeds and the stories that help create and define the world we live in, beginning with our long oral storytelling tradition. Seeds carry stories of the land and the people who grew them, while our stories are seeds for the future we hope to create. This presentation begins with context for cultural stories, shares the story of seeds and humans beginning with the Original Agreement, the impact of colonization, and my involvement with Native organizations in restoring seeds and how that led to writing the novel,

The Seed Keeper. Diane includes a brief discussion of the novel, short readings, as well as an image-based powerpoint presentation. A Q&A and book signing will follow.

About DCR

Dubuque County Reads (DCR) is a community-wide reading initiative organized by the Dubuque Area Library Information Consortium (DALINC). The…