Record details

• ISBN: 0933377312 (acid-free paper) :
• ISBN: 9780933377318 (acid-free paper)
• ISBN: 0933377304 (pbk. : acid-free paper) :
• ISBN: 9780933377301 (pbk. : acid-free paper)
• Physical Description: 127 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Publisher: Portland, Or. : Eighth Mountain Press, 1994.

Content descriptions

Formatted Contents Note:

I: By our hand, through memory, the house is more than form -- Buckskin -- Homecooking -- Story power -- II: Seven hands, seven hearts -- Reminiscent of salmon woman -- Water combined with throat singing -- The bridge -- Horse and woman -- We remember our relatives -- Weaving -- Shells on stone -- Longhouse I -- Longhouse II -- Sisters? -- Sisters -- Speelyay thoughts in Seattle -- Speelyay, again! -- Coyote folklore, in image and practice -- Distant cousins -- Deer! -- Chinle summer -- Unity -- III: Hand into stone -- Wyam: echo of falling water -- She walks along the river -- In memory of crossing the Columbia -- Black night stones and the shine of Abalone -- Hand into stone -- Of steps to drowning -- She-who-watches, the names are prayer -- The sense -- Originating fire -- Black fear -- Shaker church prayer -- Birds in this woman -- Spider woman's coyote bones -- She walks across the country -- Scratch medicine and tenements -- Siamese ghosts (the disturbed spirits) -- Speaking hands -- Custer must have learned to dance -- She is a stranger to intimacy -- A warrior and the glass prisoners -- Cold blood -- Hand to hand, the circles embrace -- Our reverence and difficult return.

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