What is included with this book?
Preface | p. xiii |
A Note on Writing with Native Words | p. xxi |
The Unlikely Peace at Cuchumaquic | p. 1 |
Always a Place at the Table | p. 3 |
Star Arches, the Lurching Earth, and the Seed-eyed God | p. 12 |
The Unlikely Peace at Cuchumaquic | p. 35 |
The Life of People as Plants | p. 67 |
In the Shade of the Fire Flower | p. 69 |
The Fiery Speech of Seeds as Time | p. 86 |
The Miraculous Return of the Tree of Time | p. 109 |
The Frenchman Gets "Everything" | p. 126 |
Checkmated by My Love | p. 140 |
People as Seeds, Their Youth as Chocolate, the Dead Echoing Back to Life | p. 149 |
Keeping the Seeds Alive | p. 173 |
Burning Up the Memory | p. 175 |
The Seeds Come Back Riding "Little Bald Gourd" | p. 188 |
Swimming Past the Dogs of Amnesia, the Seeds Disappear into the Redwoods | p. 206 |
The Six Donancianas | p. 227 |
Tunneling Past Centuries, Red Corn in Their Cheeks, the Old Ladies Scurry into View | p. 257 |
"Here's Your Damned Corn" | p. 268 |
From Their Motley Hands, the Motley Seeds Surprise the People into Beauty | p. 287 |
Seeds of Birth and Seeds of Death Return, Carrying the Whole World | p. 298 |
Our Agreement with the Holy in Nature | p. 305 |
Our Ancient Seed Jar | p. 307 |
The Marriage Contract with the Wild | p. 316 |
Keeping Our Agreement with the Wild: | p. 323 |
Our Ancient Seed Jars: Finding an Agreement to Keep | p. 323 |
There Has to Be Wild Land, Air, and Sea | p. 324 |
The Veld-Sacred Feral Land | p. 327 |
All Origins Must Be Known-Where the Seeds Go, So the Agreement Must Go | p. 330 |
When the People Marry, the Seeds Marry | p. 341 |
Kneel at the Feet of the Mother of the Food You Eat and Ask Her to Adopt You | p. 348 |
Beautiful Farming | p. 354 |
A Temple Called a Field | p. 360 |
The Majesty of Decay | p. 364 |
The Body of the Plants City | p. 369 |
Offerings-Farmers as the Jewelers of Vitality | p. 375 |
Kiss Your Pumpkins-Sacred Pantry Temples | p. 381 |
Learning to Live Beyond Our Time-The Dead Must Feed the Living | p. 391 |
The House of Origins | p. 398 |
The Famous Story of One Eye | p. 415 |
Glossary of Non-English Words | p. 423 |
New Words and Redefined Words as Understood in This Book | p. 431 |
About the Author | p. 445 |
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