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Winter Lecture Series

Makoce kin Mitakuye: The Land is my Relative


1:00 PM - 2:00 PM

2609 County Road 76, Grand Rapids, MN 55744

218-327-4482 |

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From her rich collection of prose, poetry, and recipes, Teresa Peterson shares how she found refuge from the struggle to reconcile her Christianity and Dakota spirituality, discovering solace and ceremony in communing with the Earth. Observing and embracing the cycles of her garden, she awakens to the constant affirmation that healing and wellness can be attained through a deep relationship with land, plants, and waters. Dakota people call this way of seeing and being in the world mitakuye owasin: all my relations.

Perennial Ceremony brings us into this relationship, as Peterson guides guests through the Dakota seasons to impart lessons from her life as a gardener, gatherer, and lover of the land. 

Teresa Peterson Bio:
Teresa Peterson, Utuhu Cistinna Win, is Sisseton Wahpeton Dakota and citizen of the Upper Sioux Community. She is author, with her uncle Walter LaBatte Jr., of Voices from Pejuhutazizi: Dakota Stories and Storytellers. She also wrote the children’s book Grasshopper Girl and is a contributor to Voices Rising: Native Women Writers.

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Saturday, March 14, 2026

Makoce kin Mitakuye: The Land is my Relative

From her rich collection of prose, poetry, and recipes, Teresa Peterson shares how she found refuge from the struggle to reconcile her Christianity and Dakota spirituality, discovering solace and ceremony in communing with the Earth. Observing and embracing the cycles of her garden, she awakens to the constant affirmation that healing and wellness can be attained through a deep relationship with land, plants, and waters. Dakota people call this way of seeing and being in the world mitakuye owasin: all my relations.

Perennial Ceremony brings us into this relationship, as Peterson guides guests through the Dakota seasons to impart lessons from her life as a gardener, gatherer, and lover of the land. 

Teresa Peterson Bio:
Teresa Peterson, Utuhu Cistinna Win, is Sisseton Wahpeton Dakota and citizen of the Upper Sioux Community. She is author, with her uncle Walter LaBatte Jr., of Voices from Pejuhutazizi: Dakota Stories and Storytellers. She also wrote the children’s book Grasshopper Girl and is a contributor to Voices Rising: Native Women Writers.

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