Sister nations : Native American women writers on community

Sister nations Native American women writers on community

Book - 2002

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Subjects
American literature > Indian authors.
Indians of North America > Literary collections.
Women > Literary collections.
American literature > Women authors.
Indian women > Literary collections.
Communities > Literary collections.
Indians of North America.
Women.
Indian women.
Communities.
Published
St. Paul, MN : Minnesota Historical Society Press c2002.
Language
English
Other Authors
Heid E. (Heid Ellen) Erdrich (-), Laura Tohe
Physical Description
xxi, 230 p. ; 23 cm
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. 226-230).
ISBN
9780873514286
9780873514279
  • Foreword
  • Introduction
  • Acknowledgments
  • 1. Changing Women
  • Sleepwalker
  • First Woman
  • Shadow Sisters
  • A Woman's Old Age
  • Piece Quilt: An Autobiography
  • Welcome to the Land of Ma'am
  • Picking Indian Tea
  • Craving: First Month
  • She Dances
  • In the Fields
  • Choctalking on Other Realities
  • Stitch upon Stitch
  • Sipping
  • One at a Time
  • Term
  • Limp Strings
  • Red Hawk Woman
  • Vicks
  • 2. Strong Hearts
  • A Cousin from California Shows Up at My House, the First Time in Thirty Years
  • Doe Season
  • The Shawl
  • Anna Ghostdancer
  • Conjure
  • Long Division
  • Chi-Ko-ko-koho and the Boarding School Prefect
  • Mother's Love
  • Tough Audience
  • Brother's Passing
  • Close to Bone
  • In Dinetah
  • In Memory of Shame
  • 3. New Age Pocahontas
  • Her Pocahontas
  • Butter Maiden and Maize Girl Survive Death Leap
  • Fleur-de-Lis
  • Untitled
  • Miracle
  • Ikwe Ishpiming
  • To the Woman Who Just Bought a Set of Native American Spirituality Dream Interpretation Cards
  • Grandmother, Salish Mathematician
  • Escape from the Rez on a Saturday Night
  • What's an indian woman to do?
  • The Frybread Queen
  • Love is Blind
  • Not Indian Enough
  • Alina in Kansas
  • After powwow
  • 4. In the Arms of the Skies
  • The one who got away
  • Emergence
  • Smile
  • The Great Spirit's Wife
  • The Abandoned Wife Gives Herself to the Lord
  • How to Get to the Planet Venus
  • Coyote Meets His Match
  • Husbands
  • Elegy for Bobby
  • The Power of Crushed Leaves
  • My Books and Your White Women
  • Is It Too Much to Ask?
  • The Big Rectangle
  • Tsoodzia, Mountain to the South
  • Ashkii Nizhoni
  • The way around losing you
  • Contributors
  • Information on Tribes
  • Notes
Review by Library Journal Review

In this anthology, 49 women share their experiences as Native Americans through poetry, essays, and short fiction. Divided into four sections "Changing Women," "Strong Hearts," "New Age Pocahontas," and "In the Arms of the Skies" the selections focus on the centrality of the Native experience. Writers including Louise Erdrich, Joy Harjo, and Roberta Hill tell of harsh mothers, gentle mothers, drunken fathers, strong fathers, and children growing up in a white world. The range of the collection is represented by the titles "First Woman," "Shadow Sisters," "Piece Quilt: An Autobiography," "Red Hawk Woman," "Grandmother, Salish Mathematician," and "The Frybread Queen," among others. The end material includes brief biographies of each contributor and information about the tribes they represent. These are strong, well-written stories of very real experiences and emotions. Recommended for all types of libraries. Sue Samson, Univ. of Montana Lib., Missoula (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.

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