"Perennial Ceremony is a powerful, necessary gift for our times. Teresa Peterson writes with passionate grace of Dakota practices and teachings that nourish our world and transformed her life. With compassion, humor, wisdom, and courage, she offers a path through the disastrous fires of our own making. A book I'll return to again and again for solace, guidance, delectable recipes, and most of all: inspiration." —Mona Susan Power, author of A Council of Dolls
"Equally inspiring for gardeners and cooks and readers who love a good story, Teresa Peterson’s generous-hearted sharing of her spiritual journey through gardening is both nourishing and uplifting. Her tender gleaning of practical, seasonal wisdom invites us to remember a relationship with the land that is ceremony, a life-sustaining, daily communion with creation." —Diane Wilson, author of The Seed Keeper
"Full of Indigenous knowledge, family stories, and tasty recipes, Perennial Ceremony is a love letter to Dakota homeland. In poetic passages and precise prose, Teresa Peterson teaches us what it means to acknowledge plants, creatures, water, and the earth as our relatives. Here is a circle of respect enacted through a life story of eating and exploring, grieving and healing, and the momentum of continual, seasonal return. This book will be cherished for all the delights it offers and all the wisdom it bestows." —Heid E. Erdrich, author of Original Local: Indigenous Foods, Stories, and Recipes from the Upper Midwest
"Sharing relatable recipes containing easily procured ingredients, Teresa Peterson tells intergenerational stories of life, loss, ceremony, change, hurt, and healing. Through her narrative, she brings readers into her garden, where they meet her family, work the soil, harvest a cornucopia of nourishing ingredients, and contemplate the lives and various doings of our winged, rooted, and four-legged relatives." —Wendy Makoons Geniusz, editor of Plants Have So Much to Give Us, All We Have to Do Is Ask: Anishinaabe Botanical Teachings
"From a decolonial viewpoint, Peterson honors life and all relations in her daily gardening practice. Her writing is intimate, warm, and thought-provoking, as she integrates social commentary into her reflections about family and community and our shared responsibility for each other."—Colors of Influence
"With generosity and warmth, Peterson, a citizen of the Upper Sioux Community, invites readers to her land, garden, and kitchen. Peterson has a loving, ethical, encyclopedic knowledge of the land and the living things she calls ‘relatives.’"—Booklist
"Through stories, memories, recipes, essays and poems, Peterson lovingly honors healing and wholeness through the seasonal ceremonies of the everyday."—Ms. Magazine
"Perennial Ceremony is a casual conversation about environmental ecology, occasionally spiritual, always practical. It is a beautiful, slim volume well produced by the University of Minnesota Press."—Chronicle Journal
"Delicately weaving together poetry, prose, and recipes for dishes like Wild Rice, Roast, and Hominy for a Crowd and Zucchini Brownies, Peterson offers an easily devoured glimpse into mitakuye owasin—the Dakota way of living and being in deep relationship with our natural relatives: land, plants, and water."—Civil Eats
"In tender, deliberate prose, Peterson shares her experience of blending her Christian faith with her Dakota background. Her stories, recipes, and advice provide inspiration for gardeners, cooks, writers, and anyone seeking a closer connection to nature."—Electric Literature