Spirit Car: Journey to a Dakota Past - Rebecca Krinke leads discussion with author Diane Wilson September 12, 2012

Join us for a discussion with Diane Wilson about her book Spirit Car: Journey to a Dakota Past, led by Rebecca Krinke (Landscape Architecture). Spirit Car, a book of stories written to honor Wilson’s Dakota family, begins with a vivid account of the 1862 Dakota War in Minnesota and then follows her family members' nomadic travels across South Dakota and Nebraska in their struggle to survive. It was chosen for the second year of the citywide One Minneapolis One Read community conversation.

Diane Wilson is a creative nonfiction writer. Her essays and memoir use personal experience to illustrate broader social and historical context. Her first book, Spirit Car: Journey to a Dakota Past, (Borealis Books, 2006) won the 2006 Minnesota Book Award for Memoir, Autobiography, and Creative Nonfiction. Her second book, Beloved Child: A Dakota Way of Life, (Borealis Books), was released in September 2011. Her work has been published in Fiction on a Stick; American Tensions: Literature of Identity and the Search for Social Justice; Homelands: Women's Journeys Across Race, Place, and Time; The American Indian Quarterly, The View from the Loft; Minnesota Women’s Press; Pioneer Press and many other local publications. She was the editor for Minnesota Literature, a newsletter containing news and information of interest to Minnesota’s writing community, from 2002-2004. She is a past board chair and member of SASE: The Write Place, and the founder and editor of The Artist’s Voice, a publication of artists writing about their own work, published by the Southern Theater. She is the Executive Director of Dream of Wild Health, a Native owned 10-acre farm in Hugo, Minnesota.

Please feel free to bring your own lunch; beverages will be provided.

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