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Preface xiii
A Note on Writing with Native Words xxi
Part I The Unlikely Peace at Cuchumaquic 1
Chapter 1 Always a Place at the Table 3
Chapter 2 Star Arches, the Lurching Earth, and the Seed-eyed God 12
Chapter 3 The Unlikely Peace at Cuchumaquic 35
Part II The Life of People as Plants 67
Chapter 4 In the Shade of the Fire Flower 69
Chapter 5 The Fiery Speech of Seeds as Time 86
Chapter 6 The Miraculous Return of the Tree of Time 109
Chapter 7 The Frenchman Gets "Everything" 126
Chapter 8 Checkmated by My Love 140
Chapter 9 People as Seeds, Their Youth as Chocolate, the Dead Echoing Back to Life 149
Part III Keeping the Seeds Alive 173
Chapter 10 Burning Up the Memory 175
Chapter 11 The Seeds Come Back Riding "Little Bald Gourd" 188
Chapter 12 Swimming Past the Dogs of Amnesia, the Seeds Disappear into the Redwoods 206
Chapter 13 The Six Donancianas 227
Chapter 14 Tunneling Past Centuries, Red Corn in Their Cheeks, the Old Ladies Scurry into View 257
Chapter 15 "Here's Your Damned Corn" 268
Chapter 16 From Their Motley Hands, the Motley Seeds Surprise the People into Beauty 287
Chapter 17 Seeds of Birth and Seeds of Death Return, Carrying the Whole World 298
Part IV Our Agreement with the Holy in Nature 305
Chapter 18 Our Ancient Seed Jar 307
Chapter 19 The Marriage Contract with the Wild 316
Chapter 20 Keeping Our Agreement with the Wild: 323
Our Ancient Seed Jars: Finding an Agreement to Keep 323
Sprout 1 There Has to Be Wild Land, Air, and Sea 324
Sprout 2 The Veld-Sacred Feral Land 327
Sprout 3 All Origins Must Be Known-Where the Seeds Go, So the Agreement Must Go 330
Sprout 4 When the People Marry, the Seeds Marry 341
Sprout 5 Kneel at the Feet of the Mother of the Food You Eat and Ask Her to Adopt You 348
Sprout 6 Beautiful Farming 354
Sprout 7 A Temple Called a Field 360
Sprout 8 The Majesty of Decay 364
Sprout 9 The Body of the Plants City 369
Sprout 10 Offerings-Farmers as the Jewelers of Vitality 375
Sprout 11 Kiss Your Pumpkins-Sacred Pantry Temples 381
Sprout 12 Learning to Live Beyond Our Time-The Dead Must Feed the Living 391
Chapter 21 The House of Origins 398
Chapter 22 The Famous Story of One Eye 415
Glossary of Non-English Words 423
New Words and Redefined Words as Understood in This Book 431
About the Author 445
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