NATIVE AMERICAN HERITAGE MONTH FEATURED SPEAKER: Diane Wilson

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About Diane Wilson:

Diane Wilson is a Dakota writer and educator, who has published four award-winning books as well as numerous essays. Her novel, The Seed Keeper, received the 2022 Minnesota Book Award for Fiction. She has also published a memoir, Spirit Car: Journey to a Dakota Past, that won a 2006 Minnesota Book Award and was selected for the 2012 One Minneapolis One Read program. Her nonfiction book, Beloved Child: A Dakota Way of Life, received the Barbara Sudler Award from History Colorado. Wilson’s middle-grade biography, Ella Cara Deloria: Dakota Language Protector, was an Honor selection for the 2022 American Indian Youth Literature Award. She is a co-author of a picture book—Where We Come From—that was released in October 2022. Her essays have been featured in many publications, including We Are Meant to Rise; Kinship: Belonging in a World of Relations; and A Good Time for the Truth. Wilson is the former Executive Director for 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 a Mdewakanton descendent, enrolled on the Rosebud Reservation. Wilson is a gardener and bog steward, living on 10 acres north of the Twin Cities.

You can find more about Diane Wilson on her website, https://www.dianewilsonwords.com/ .

Registration:

Diane Wilson’s presentation will begin promptly at 1pm Eastern Time on Thursday, November 9^th. Please register in advance to receive a zoom link.