ISBN

0873514289; 0873514270

Statement of Responsibility

foreword by Winona LaDuke ; edited by Heid E. Erdrich and Laura Tohe.

Publication Information

St. Paul Minn. : Minnesota Historical Society Press

Physical Description

xxi, 230 p. 22 cm.

Contents

Pt. 1 Changing women -- Sleepwalker / kateri akiwenzie-damm (Chippewa) -- First woman / Esther Belin (Navajo) -- Shadow sisters / Kimberly Blaeser (Anishinaabe) -- A woman's old age / Elizabeth Cook-Lynn (Sioux) -- Piece quilt: an autobiography / Pauline Danforth (White Earth Anishinaabe) -- Welcome to the land of Ma'am / Susan Deer Cloud (Mohawk-Blackfeet-Seneca) -- Picking indian tea / Nicole Ducheneaux (Sioux) -- Craving: first month, She dances / Heid E. Erdrich (Ojibway) -- In the fields / Allison Adelle Hedge Coke (Huron-Cherokee) -- Choctalking on other realities / LeAnne Howe (Choctaw) -- Stitch upon stitch / Linda Noel (Konkow Maidu) -- Sipping / Suzanne Rancourt (Abenaki) -- One at a time, Term, Limp strings / Margo Tamez (Nde-Dne) -- Red hawk woman / Karenne Wood (Monacan) -- Vicks / Evangeline Parsons Yazzie (Navajo) -- Pt. 2 Strong hearts -- A cousin from California shows up at my house, the first time in thirty years / Elizabeth Cook-Lynn (Sioux) -- Doe Season / Susan Deer Cloud (Mohawk-Blackfeet-Seneca) -- The Shawl / Louise Erdrich (Anishinaabe) -- Anna Ghostdancer / Lorena Fuerta (Mescalero Apache-Yaqui) -- Conjure, Long division / Revah Mariah S. Gover (Skidi-Pawnee-Tohono O'odham) -- Chi-K0-ko-koho and the boarding school prefect / Linda LeGarde Grover (Chippewa) -- Mother's love / Debra Haaland (Laguna Pueblo) -- Tough audience, Brother's passing / Ines Hernandez-Avila (Nimipu) -- Close to Bone / Linda Noel (Konkow Maidu) -- In Dinetah / Laura Tohe (Dine) -- In memory of shame / Karenne Wood (Monocan) -- Pt. 3 New Age Pocahontas -- Her Pocahontas / Susan Deer Cloud (Mohawk-Blackfeet-Seneca)-- Butter maiden and maize girl survive death leap / Heid E. Erdrich (Ojibway) -- Fleur-de-lis / Lise Erdrich (Chippewa) -- Untitled / Lorena Fuerta (Mescalero Apache-Yaqui) -- Miracle / Terry Gomez (Comanche) -- Ikwe Ishpiming, To the woman who just bought a set of Native American spirituality dream interpretation cards / Linda LeGarde Grover (Chippewa) -- Grandmother, Salish mathematician / Teresa Iyall-Santos (Couer d'Alene-Yakama) -- Escape from the Rez on Saturday night / Sara Littlecrow-Russell (Metis) -- What's an Indian woman to do? / Marcie Rendon (White Earth Anishinaabe) -- The frybread queen, Love is blind, Not Indian enough / Annie Cecilia Smith (Yakama) -- Alina in Kansas / Kinmerly Wensaut (Potowatomi) -- After powwow / Vanaya Yazzie (Dine) -- Pt. 4 In the arms of the skies -- The one who got away / kateri akiwenzie-damm (Chippewa) -- Emergence / Esther Belin (Navajo) -- Smile / Vee F. Browne (Navajo) -- The great spirit's wife, The abandoned wife gives herself to the Lord / Diane Glancy (Cherokee) -- How to get to the planet Venus / Jo Harjo (Muscogee Creek) -- Coyote meets his match, Husbands / Heather Harris (Cree-Metis) -- Elegy for Bobby, The power of crushed leaves / Roberta Hill (Oneida)-- My books & your white mom, Is it too much to ask? / Sara Littlecrow-Russell (Metis) -- The big rectangle, Tsoodzil, mountain to the South / Laura Tohe (Navajo) -- Ashkii Nizhoni / Eulynda Toledo-Benalli (Dine) -- The way around losing you / Kimberly Wensaut (Potawatomi)