Making Relatives – Diane Wilson

As part of a new Emergence series, we’re publishing a selection of
essays from Kinship: Belonging in a World of Relations—a
five-volume collection edited by Gavin Van Horn, Robin Wall
Kimmerer, and John Hausdoerffer. Diane Wilson is a writer, speaker,
editor, and the Executive Director for the Native American Food
Sovereignty Alliance. She is the author of The Seed Keeper; Spirit
Car: Journey to a Dakota Past; and Beloved Child: A Dakota Way of
Life. In this essay, Diane asks what it means to be a good relative
to the land as she endeavors to restore balance between the native
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