Diane Wilson Books in Order

Seeking to understand her mother’s silence about the past, Diane Wilson traces six generations of her Dakota family. Blending memoir with researched reconstruction, she explores survival, loss, and the ways inherited history has shaped her own identity.

Diane Wilson meets Dakota and other Indigenous people working to heal the effects of colonization and historical trauma. Their stories show how language, ceremony, education, and community can help families raise children with a stronger sense of cultural belonging.

This illustrated biography introduces Ella Cara Deloria, who devoted her life to recording Indigenous stories and languages. It follows her work protecting Dakota cultural knowledge and shows young readers why preserving language matters to the generations that follow.

Widowed Rosalie Iron Wing returns to her childhood home after years away, reconnecting with her Dakota heritage. Through the lives of women across generations, Diane Wilson explores family, displacement, farming, and the preservation of seeds as a form of cultural survival.