Record details

• ISBN: 1566890101 :
• ISBN: 9781566890106
• Physical Description: 87 p. ; 22 cm.
• Publisher: Minneapolis : Coffee House Press, 1993.

Content descriptions

Formatted Contents Note:

The history of red -- The history of red -- Hunger -- Fat -- Hunger -- Bear fat -- Return: Buffalo -- Harvesters of night and water -- Bear -- Mountain lion -- Crossings -- Breaking -- Crow law -- Skin -- Salt -- Shelter -- Bamboo -- Map -- Drought -- Naming the animals -- The fallen -- The ritual life of animals -- Travelers -- Tracking -- Milk -- The book of medicines -- The alchemists -- The grandmother songs -- Tear -- chambered nautilus -- Sickness -- Carry -- Glass -- The bricks -- Drum -- Skin dreaming -- Partings -- Gather -- Two -- Nothing -- Gate -- The direction of light -- Great measures -- Other, sister, twin -- Flood: the sheltering tree -- The origins of corn.

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Indians of North America > Poetry.