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Preface | |
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A Note on Writing with Native Words | |
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The Unlikely Peace at Cuchumaquic | |
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Always a Place at the Table | |
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Star Arches, the Lurching Earth, and the Seed-eyed God | |
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The Unlikely Peace at Cuchumaquic | |
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The Life of People as Plants | |
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In the Shade of the Fire Flower | |
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The Fiery Speech of Seeds as Time | |
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The Miraculous Return of the Tree of Time | |
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The Frenchman Gets "Everything" | |
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Checkmated by My Love | |
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People as Seeds, Their Youth as Chocolate, the Dead Echoing Back to Life | |
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Keeping the Seeds Alive | |
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Burning Up the Memory | |
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The Seeds Come Back Riding "Little Bald Gourd" | |
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Swimming Past the Dogs of Amnesia, the Seeds Disappear into the Redwoods | |
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The Six Donancianas | |
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Tunneling Past Centuries, Red Corn in Their Cheeks, the Old Ladies Scurry into View | |
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"Here's Your Damned Corn" | |
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From Their Motley Hands, the Motley Seeds Surprise the People into Beauty | |
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Seeds of Birth and Seeds of Death Return, Carrying the Whole World | |
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Our Agreement with the Holy in Nature | |
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Our Ancient Seed Jar | |
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The Marriage Contract with the Wild | |
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Keeping Our Agreement with the Wild: | |
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Our Ancient Seed Jars: Finding an Agreement to Keep | |
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There Has to Be Wild Land, Air, and Sea | |
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The Veld-Sacred Feral Land | |
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All Origins Must Be Known-Where the Seeds Go, So the Agreement Must Go | |
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When the People Marry, the Seeds Marry | |
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Kneel at the Feet of the Mother of the Food You Eat and Ask Her to Adopt You | |
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Beautiful Farming | |
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A Temple Called a Field | |
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The Majesty of Decay | |
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The Body of the Plants City | |
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Offerings-Farmers as the Jewelers of Vitality | |
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Kiss Your Pumpkins-Sacred Pantry Temples | |
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Learning to Live Beyond Our Time-The Dead Must Feed the Living | |
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The House of Origins | |
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The Famous Story of One Eye | |
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Glossary of Non-English Words | |
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New Words and Redefined Words as Understood in This Book | |
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About the Author | |