Compelling, heartbreaking, and so important. I loved that this story spanned generations and connected us with so many different people. Rosalie Iron Wing is adrift. Orphaned at a young age, placed into foster care with white folk, she later found herself married to much older white man. She helps him care for his family's farm but the loss of her Dahkota community is hard. She holds fast to her father's teachings and tries to impart them onto her son. But he is stubborn and doesn't view the land the same way that she does. How they view and treat the farm becomes a wedge between them and Rosalie doesn't know how to bridge the gap. When her husband dies, she leaves the farm in her sons care and retreats to the shack she grew up. Powerful and informative; The Seed Keeper is about family, heritage, tradition, and confronting the atrocities of the past.
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