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Diane Wilson


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Diane Wilson is a Dakota writer who uses personal experience to
illustrate broader social and historical context. Her new novel, The
Seed Keeper, will be published by Milkweed Editions in March, 2021.
Wilson’s memoir, Spirit Car: Journey to a Dakota Past, won a 2006
Minnesota Book Award and was selected for the 2012 One Min-
neapolis One Read program. Her nonfiction book, Beloved Child: A
Dakota Way of Life, was awarded the 2012 Barbara Sudler Award
from History Colorado. Her work has been featured in many pub-
lications, including the anthology A Good Time for the Truth. She has
served as a Mentor for the Loft Emerging Artist program as well as
Intermedia’s Beyond the Pale. Awards include the Minnesota State
Arts Board, a 2013 Bush Foundation Fellows
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“Some seeds need fire to sprout. What if you’re that seed?”
Diane Wilson, The Seed Keeper

“Maybe we all carry that instinct to return home, to the horizon line that formed us, to the place where we first knew the world. Maybe it was that instinct driving me now.”
Diane Wilson, The Seed Keeper

“You wouldn’t recognize this land back then. Over thousands of years, the plants and animals worked with wind and fire until the land was covered in a sea of grass that was home to many relatives. The bison gave us everything, from thadó, our meat, to our clothing and thípi hides. His dung fertilized the soil. The prairie dogs opened up tunnels that brought air and water deep into the earth. Grasses that were as tall as a man set long roots that could withstand drought. When my grandfather was a boy, he woke each morning to the song of the meadowlark. The prairie showed us for many generations how to live and work together as one family. “And then the settlers came with their plows and destroyed the prairie in a single lifetime,” my father said. What I remember most, now, is his voice shaking with rage, his tobacco-stained fingers trembling as they held a hand-rolled cigarette, the way he drew smoke deep into his lungs.”
Diane Wilson, The Seed Keeper

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