The Seed Keeper

A Novel

By: Diane Wilson

Narrated by: Kyla García

Length: 10 hrs and 42 mins

Publisher's summary

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 Dakhota people. Until, one morning, Ray doesn't return from checking his traps. Told she has no family, Rosalie is sent to live with a foster family in nearby Mankato - where the reserved, bookish teenager meets rebellious Gaby Makespeace, in a friendship that transcends the damaged legacies they've inherited.

On a winter's day many years later, Rosalie returns to her childhood home. A widow and mother, she has spent the previous two decades on her White husband's farm, finding solace in her garden even as the farm is threatened first by drought and then by a predatory chemical company. Now, grieving, Rosalie begins to confront the past, on a search for family, identity, and a community where she can finally belong. In the process, she learns what it means to be descended from women with souls of iron-women who have protected their families, their traditions, and a precious cache of seeds through generations of hardship and loss, through war and the insidious trauma of boarding schools.

Weaving together the voices of four women, The Seed Keeper is a beautifully told story of reawakening, of remembering our original relationship to the seeds and, through them, to our ancestors.

©2021 Diane Wilson (P)2021 HighBridge, a division of Recorded Books

Heartbreaking American History.

Such a sad chapter in American History, Every time I read a tale of the Indians who lived in such peace and grace, then disrupted by The Trail of Tear and the like, I am heartbroken by the English arrogance of the past.
Not a great narration....Didn't ruin the story, but certainly didn't enhance it either.

excellent story, a wonderful lesson for all of us

I love this story of Native American culture which we need to take to heart and learn from.

Must read!

This is one of the best books I have read. So well written and beautifully performed. A story for everyone.

Love this book

It is the first book I’ve re-read in several decades. And I might even read it again.

Heartbreaking and warming Story

As a seed keeper my self the title caught my eye. I love the story and the history. It broke my heart. But it also made me understand the Seed Keeper in me.

An Important Book

The stories of the indigenous people need to be told. We need to listen to their wisdom about living in balance with Nature and in relationship with the Land. This is a good step in that direction.

Histories webs

A beautiful and haunting story of family, trauma and love. The seeds are characters that reveal the changes through history of their care. I highly recommend.

Amazing storytelling

Loved the history, the detail, and the realistic and empathic peek into the deep historical trauma colonization is still bringing to the amazingly resilient indigenous peoples.

A'ho day baht haw thank you

thank you very much for writing this book! it is greatly appreciated from one Kiowa woman to a Dakotah

Hidden history

The other side in a poignant retelling of US American history. Every one should read this