Good Seeds: A Menominee Indian Food Memoir

Good Seeds: A Menominee Indian Food MemoirIn this food memoir, named for the "manoomin" or wild rice that also gives the Menominee tribe its name, tribal member Thomas Pecore Weso takes readers on a cook's journey through Wisconsin's northern woods. He connects each foodbeaver, trout, blackberry, wild rice, maple sugar, partridgewith colorful individuals who taught him Indigenous values. Cooks will learn from his authentic recipes. Amateur and professional historians will appreciate firsthand

he reflects on his native ground and its influence on his people

even shocking—realizes that his fear of losing Irene may force him to create the defining work of his career

as well those who seek or have experienced cultural or spiritual awakening

and should be transparent for native speakers of Blackfoot as well as for linguists

I’ll decide on the color after my round-the-world vacation

A prolific voice in Native American writing for more than twenty years

Momaday recalls stories of his childhood

through writers like James Fenimore Cooper and Walt Whitman

sixteen of Minnesota’s best writers provide a range of perspectives on what it is like to live as a person of color in one of the whitest states in the nation

indigenous wisdom

Mother Earth

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