Benjamin Grows a Garden

Benjamin Grows a GardenReaders follow along step by step as Benjamin plants and cares for his garden and imagines the harvest to come. Benjamin loves springtime. The grass grows bright green, the birds sing sweet songs and, best of all, Benjamin and his mother start their garden. In just the right order, they plant mahtmin (corn), pmiciwacis (beans), and osawipak (squash) for Three Sisters Soup. They plant strawberries to serve with bannock, then zucchini, tomatoes,

including Stan

" a bracelet of crown poems

to build a life after the years of sacrifice--only to find the Lake Witch is waiting for her

References to the Indian Wars

The story of Pocahontas has thrived for centuries as a cover for settler-colonial erasure

and his morning prayers were the foundation for all the day's meals

mixed blood

bitter world of a St

and a Jewish/Indigenous lesbian couple show up to an open house run by a white settler real estate agent

and told them the plan

he is in a state of utter amazement at the world

passed from generation to generation