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The way; an anthology of American Indian literature, edited by Shirley Hill Witt and Stan Steiner.
Summary:
Consists of material not previously published, with many talented Indian writers and poets making their first appearance on the literary scene.
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- ISBN: 0394717694
- ISBN: 9780394717692
- Physical Description: xxix, 261 pages ; 19 cm
- Publisher: New York, Vintage Books [1972]
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- As snow before a summer sun -- Songs of the people -- The new Indians -- My teacher is a lizard: education and culture -- The laws of life: tribal and legal -- The ritual of death: war and peace -- The long road -- Prophecies of the future.Listen to his many voices: an introduction to the literature of the American Indian / Shirley Hill Witt -- I. As snow before a summer sun -- The coming of the white man: the pretty colored snake, a Cherokee story -- Restore to us our country / Thayendanegea (General Joseph Brant) -- Will we let ourselves be destroyed? / Tecumtha (Tecumseh) -- As snow before a summer sun -- "The way... is for all the redmen to unite" -- Let our affairs be transacted by warriors -- It is hard to fight among brethren for the sake of dogs / Pontiac -- "He drank the blood of some whites": Black Hawk speaks -- Our new home will be beyond a great river / Keokuk -- Those who made war against the white man always failed / Aleek-chea-ahoosh (Plenty-Coups) -- It is a good day to die -- You are like dogs in the hot moon / Shakopee -- Dakotas, I am for war! / Red Cloud -- The day before the Battle on the Little Big Horn / Lloyd Winter Chaser -- Our people are blindly deceived / Sitting Bull -- The surrender of Geronimo: "I was living quietly and contented, doing and thinking of no harm -- "Your people have destroyed my nation" / Red Eagle -- "I will fight no more forever" / Highn'moot Tooyalakekt (Chief Joseph) -- "Dead, did I say? There is no death..." / Chief Seathe (Seattle) -- II. Songs of the people -- Songs of the people (Anishinabe Nagamon) / Gerald Vizenor -- A word has power / N. Scott Momaday -- The mysterious bird and the land of the death / Jaime de Angulo -- Ceremony for rain (Niltsa Bikah Nahaagha) as told to Sidney M. Callaway and Gary Witherspoon -- The legend of Dr. Fewkes and Masauwu / Edmund Nequatewa -- Manabozho and the gambler / Gerald Vizenor -- III. The new Indians -- The reservations -- What is an Indian reservation? / Marilyn Cosen, White Mountain Apache -- We do not want any other home / Celsa Apapas -- On an Indian reservation: how colonialism works / Robert K. Thomas -- Our benefactor, the BIA: Indian version of the Lord's Prayer / Anonymous -- The dog problem / Editor, Maine Indian newsletter -- Always againsting my husband Albert Hainois and everything, or unemployed forever / Anna Hainois -- Indian humor -- A Cherokee joke: "watch that shit!" -- Etiquette of the marriage bed -- Dog head stew -- The Indian glossary -- The speech I didn't give when I didn't address the National Press Club, last time I was in Washington / Hank Adams -- The mainstream: Indians as human beings / Earl Old Person -- Relocation / Reverend Watt Spade and Willard Walker -- On the road, Indian-style: the new migrations, three poems / Simon Ortiz -- Relocation -- Missing that Indian name of Roy or Ray -- West: Grants to Gallup, New Mexico -- The urban Indians -- The Indian in suburbia / Wamblee Wastee -- Urban Indians reconquer their urban center -- Today young Indians must relinquish their customs / Richard St. Germaine -- Changing cultures / Howard Rock -- Civil rights and Indian rights / Sam Kolb -- On the art of stealing human rights / Jerry Gambill -- The new Indian wars / Mel Thom -- Changes / Clyde Warrior -- Which one are you? Five types of young Indians -- This Indian revolution -- IV. "My teacher is a lizard" : education and culture -- You are highly educated - that does not help us any at all / Albert Attocknie, Chief, Comanche tribe -- Protection against "thinkers" - a Cherokee chant / Jack F. and Anna G. Kilpatrick -- Too many scientists and not enough chiefs / Howard Rock -- Fourteen strings of purple wampum to writers about Indians -- An untrue portrayal of the Indians -- Indians and Hollywood: an old script -- Open letter to skelton / Calvin Jones, Sr. -- A word on Indian Studies programs / Alan Parker -- The new Indians and the old Indians: cultural factors in the education of American Indians / Robert L. Bennett -- Everyone talks in poetry -- Love poems and spring poems and dream poems and war poems / translated by Gerald Vizenor -- Snow, the last / Joseph Concha -- Grandfather and I / Joseph Concha -- A new visitor (to the pueblo) / Joseph Concha -- In one day my mother grew old / Courtney Moyah -- Untitled / Vance Iron Good -- The man from Washington / James Welch -- One chip of human bone / Ray Young Bear -- Three poems / Calvin O'John -- It is not! / As told by a fifth year group in the Special Navajo Program in 1940 -- I am a Papago girl / Frances Kisto -- Walk proud, walk straight, let your thoughts race / Patty Harjo -- When I was young, my father said / Bruce Ignacio -- New way, old way / Dave Martin Nez -- Sorry about that / Kenneth Kale -- Death / Janie Bullis -- My life / Jeanne Baker -- War signs / Willie George -- Poem for Vietnam / Ray Young Bear -- Loser / David Reeves -- My words are changed into dirty thoughts -- My language: is Navajo a dirty word? / Bertha Desiderio -- My teacher is a lizard / Mary Lynn Blackburn -- Indian education -- Missing children -- Youth dies of exposure -- Three Kayenta teachers resign -- Why must we be treated like monkeys / Jr. Draper -- The schools are fenced in: community control of the schools / Vance Randall -- A Navajo medicine man cures his son -- V. The laws of life: tribal and legal -- Live as your wise forefathers lived before you / Pontiac -- The white man's way: "We gave them meat, they gave us poison" / Sago-yo-watha (Red Jacket) -- The missionary in a cultural trap / VIne Deloria, Jr. -- Religion of the people / Herbert Blatchford -- Oath of Office of the Pueblos / translated by Joe Sando -- The laws of the Indians / Wamblee Wicasa "Eagle Man" Ed McGaa -- "Law of the outlaws" of the Cherokees / Jack F. and Anna G. Kilpatrick -- The origin and development of the Navajo tribal government -- "The real issues of the campaign" -- The intellectual tribal leader, as a social type / Margaret Oberly -- VI. The ritual of death: war and peace -- A death in South Dakota -- The case of Thomas James White Hawk -- Why did he do it? -- On death row / Thomas James White Hawk quoting from Socrates -- Manifest Destiny: Vietnam and the Indians / Parmenton Decorah -- War and peace -- Indian Vietnam sentiment polled -- "A soldier must do battle " / Clyde Sampson -- Should Indians fight in White Man's war? / Stanley Benally -- Navajo banished to reservation -- "I chose to serve my people" : the statement of a Vietnam veteran / Pvt. Sidney Mills -- VII. The long road -- "We meet in a time of darkness" " declaration of the Five County Cherokees -- "The voice of the American Indian, Declaration of Indian Purpose, American Indian Chicago Conference -- Self-determination: National Indian Youth Council Statement of Policy -- Appeal for an "Underdeveloped Nation" loan -- Red power: an eight point program / Native Alliance for Red Power -- Okla-HoumaL the red-earth-colored-people - The Program of the United Native Americans -- The Turtle Island: The North American Indian Unity Convention -- "We hold the rock" : Alcatraz proclamation to the Great White Father and his people -- VIII. Prophecies of the future -- "Where do we stand today?" : the Hopi prophecy updated -- The lost brother: an Iroquois prophecy of the serpents / retold by Wallace "Mad Bear" Anderson -- Prophecy of the four-legged man: "We will defeat Goliath" / Reverend Clifton Hall -- The warriors of the rainbow / William Willoya -- "So let there be happiness" / Apache tribe.
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Thomas -- ‡tOur benefactor, the BIA: Indian version of the Lord's Prayer / ‡rAnonymous -- ‡tThe dog problem / ‡rEditor, Maine Indian newsletter -- ‡tAlways againsting my husband Albert Hainois and everything, or unemployed forever / ‡rAnna Hainois -- ‡tIndian humor -- ‡tA Cherokee joke: "watch that shit!" -- ‡tEtiquette of the marriage bed -- ‡tDog head stew -- ‡tThe Indian glossary -- ‡tThe speech I didn't give when I didn't address the National Press Club, last time I was in Washington / ‡rHank Adams -- The mainstream: Indians as human beings / ‡rEarl Old Person -- ‡tRelocation / ‡rReverend Watt Spade and Willard Walker -- ‡tOn the road, Indian-style: the new migrations, three poems / ‡rSimon Ortiz -- ‡tRelocation -- ‡tMissing that Indian name of Roy or Ray -- ‡tWest: Grants to Gallup, New Mexico -- ‡tThe urban Indians -- ‡tThe Indian in suburbia / ‡rWamblee Wastee -- ‡tUrban Indians reconquer their urban center -- ‡tToday young Indians must relinquish their customs / ‡rRichard St. Germaine -- ‡tChanging cultures / ‡rHoward Rock -- ‡tCivil rights and Indian rights / ‡rSam Kolb -- ‡tOn the art of stealing human rights / ‡rJerry Gambill -- ‡tThe new Indian wars / ‡rMel Thom -- ‡tChanges / ‡rClyde Warrior -- ‡tWhich one are you? Five types of young Indians -- ‡tThis Indian revolution -- ‡tIV. "My teacher is a lizard" : education and culture -- ‡tYou are highly educated - that does not help us any at all / ‡rAlbert Attocknie, Chief, Comanche tribe -- ‡tProtection against "thinkers" - a Cherokee chant / ‡rJack F. and Anna G. Kilpatrick -- ‡tToo many scientists and not enough chiefs / ‡rHoward Rock -- ‡tFourteen strings of purple wampum to writers about Indians -- ‡tAn untrue portrayal of the Indians -- ‡tIndians and Hollywood: an old script -- ‡tOpen letter to skelton / ‡rCalvin Jones, Sr. -- ‡tA word on Indian Studies programs / ‡rAlan Parker -- ‡tThe new Indians and the old Indians: cultural factors in the education of American Indians / ‡rRobert L. Bennett -- ‡tEveryone talks in poetry -- ‡tLove poems and spring poems and dream poems and war poems / ‡rtranslated by Gerald Vizenor -- ‡tSnow, the last / ‡rJoseph Concha -- ‡tGrandfather and I / ‡rJoseph Concha -- ‡tA new visitor (to the pueblo) / ‡rJoseph Concha -- ‡tIn one day my mother grew old / ‡rCourtney Moyah -- ‡tUntitled / ‡rVance Iron Good -- ‡tThe man from Washington / ‡rJames Welch -- ‡tOne chip of human bone / ‡rRay Young Bear -- ‡tThree poems / ‡rCalvin O'John -- ‡tIt is not! / ‡rAs told by a fifth year group in the Special Navajo Program in 1940 -- ‡tI am a Papago girl / ‡rFrances Kisto -- ‡tWalk proud, walk straight, let your thoughts race / ‡rPatty Harjo -- ‡tWhen I was young, my father said / ‡rBruce Ignacio -- ‡tNew way, old way / ‡rDave Martin Nez -- ‡tSorry about that / ‡rKenneth Kale -- ‡tDeath / ‡rJanie Bullis -- ‡tMy life / ‡rJeanne Baker -- ‡tWar signs / ‡rWillie George -- ‡tPoem for Vietnam / ‡rRay Young Bear -- ‡tLoser / ‡rDavid Reeves -- ‡tMy words are changed into dirty thoughts -- ‡tMy language: is Navajo a dirty word? / Bertha Desiderio -- ‡tMy teacher is a lizard / ‡rMary Lynn Blackburn -- ‡tIndian education -- ‡tMissing children -- ‡tYouth dies of exposure -- ‡tThree Kayenta teachers resign -- ‡tWhy must we be treated like monkeys / ‡rJr. Draper -- ‡tThe schools are fenced in: community control of the schools / ‡rVance Randall -- ‡tA Navajo medicine man cures his son -- ‡tV. The laws of life: tribal and legal -- ‡tLive as your wise forefathers lived before you / ‡rPontiac -- ‡tThe white man's way: "We gave them meat, they gave us poison" / ‡rSago-yo-watha (Red Jacket) -- ‡tThe missionary in a cultural trap / ‡rVIne Deloria, Jr. -- ‡tReligion of the people / ‡rHerbert Blatchford -- ‡tOath of Office of the Pueblos / ‡rtranslated by Joe Sando -- ‡tThe laws of the Indians / ‡rWamblee Wicasa "Eagle Man" Ed McGaa -- ‡t"Law of the outlaws" of the Cherokees / ‡rJack F. and Anna G. Kilpatrick -- ‡tThe origin and development of the Navajo tribal government -- ‡t"The real issues of the campaign" -- ‡tThe intellectual tribal leader, as a social type / ‡rMargaret Oberly -- ‡tVI. The ritual of death: war and peace -- ‡tA death in South Dakota -- ‡tThe case of Thomas James White Hawk -- ‡tWhy did he do it? -- ‡tOn death row / ‡rThomas James White Hawk quoting from Socrates -- ‡tManifest Destiny: Vietnam and the Indians / ‡rParmenton Decorah -- ‡tWar and peace -- ‡tIndian Vietnam sentiment polled -- ‡t"A soldier must do battle " / ‡rClyde Sampson -- ‡tShould Indians fight in White Man's war? / ‡rStanley Benally -- ‡tNavajo banished to reservation -- ‡t"I chose to serve my people" : the statement of a Vietnam veteran / ‡rPvt. Sidney Mills -- ‡tVII. The long road -- ‡t"We meet in a time of darkness" " declaration of the Five County Cherokees -- ‡t"The voice of the American Indian, Declaration of Indian Purpose, American Indian Chicago Conference -- ‡tSelf-determination: National Indian Youth Council Statement of Policy -- ‡tAppeal for an "Underdeveloped Nation" loan -- ‡tRed power: an eight point program / ‡rNative Alliance for Red Power -- ‡tOkla-HoumaL the red-earth-colored-people - The Program of the United Native Americans -- ‡tThe Turtle Island: The North American Indian Unity Convention -- ‡t"We hold the rock" : Alcatraz proclamation to the Great White Father and his people -- ‡tVIII. 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