The Seed Keeper Métis and it introduces a brilliant

and it introduces a brilliant new author at the start of a major career

Tommy Pico

each of whom have private reasons for traveling to the Big Oakland Powwow

” — Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

2009 Minnesota Book Awards Winner for Poetry

The Seed Keeper Métis and it introduces a brilliantA haunting novel spanning several generations, The Seed Keeper follows a Dakota family's struggle to preserve their way of life, and their sacrifices to protect what matters most. Rosalie Iron Wing has grown up in the woods with her father, Ray, a former science teacher who tells her stories of plants, of the stars, of the origins of the Dakota people. Until, one morning, Ray doesn't return from checking his traps. Told she has no family, Rosalie is