Teresa Peterson, Utuhu Cistinna Win, is Sisseton Wahpeton Dakota and citizen of the Upper Sioux Community. Teresa earned her doctorate from the University of Minnesota Duluth. She is the author of Perennial Ceremony: Lessons and Gifts from a Dakota Garden and Grasshopper Girl, and co-author of Voices from Pejuhutazizi: Dakota Stories and Storytellers with her uncle “Super” LaBatte. Her passion is digging in her garden that overlooks the Mni Sota River valley and feeding friends and family.