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A Gathering of spirit : a collection by North American Indian women / edited by Beth Brant (Degonwadonti).

Brant, Beth, 1941- (Added Author).

Summary:

"The single best source for experiencing the vibrancy and breadth of contemporary Indian women's writing."--BOOK JACKET.

Record details

  • ISBN: 0932379567 (alk. paper)
  • ISBN: 9780932379566 (alk. paper)
  • ISBN: 0932379559 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • ISBN: 9780932379559 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • Physical Description: 238 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
  • Publisher: Ithaca, N.Y. : Firebrand Books, c1988.

Content descriptions

General Note:
Originally published: Rockland, Me. : Sinister Wisdom Books, 1984.
Bibliography, etc. Note:
Bibliography: p. 232-234.
Formatted Contents Note:
Mother of us all / Jaune Quick-To-See Smith -- Artifact / Edith Purevich -- Owl woman / Amber Coverdale Sumrall -- One who skins cats / Paula Gunn Allen -- Thanksgiving dinner during pelting season (1957) / Mary Moran -- New shoes / Linda Hogan -- Blanket shawl / Alice Souligny -- Glancy, Diane. ; I am not the woman I am / Diane Glancy -- Trading post -- Winslow, Arizona / Terri Meyette -- White man's word / Debra Swallow -- Letter to the Little Shell / Gretchen Cotrell -- Drawing by Kawennotakie / Salli Benedict (Kawennotakie) -- What Frank, Martha and I know about the desert / Alice Sadongei -- To the spirit of Monahsetah / Charlotte DeClue -- Indian women are listening: to the nuke devils / Wendy Rosel -- Grandma's story / Lynn Randall -- Celebration 1982 / Terri Meyette -- "They always come back" / Winona LaDuke -- Dispossessed / Janice Gould -- Canyon day woman blues, Woman III / Geraldine Keams -- Family matter / Elizabeth Cook-Lynn -- Letter from prison / Share Quart -- Woman warrior / Juane Quick-To-See Smith -- Circumstance / Alice Bowen -- Canada's natural resource / Midnight Sun.
I picked up your cast away hide / Mary Moran -- Evelyn searching / Denise Panek -- Returning / Kate Shanley -- Trees along the river / Luci Tapahonso -- Lamp in the window / Audrey LaForme -- Cells / Mary Bennett -- My girlfriend / Mary Bennett -- Dance a ghost / Chrystos -- Sideshow: Julia the lionwoman/the ugliest woman in the world / Wendy Rose -- Long story / Beth Bryant -- Mother with child / Lenore Keeshig-Tobias -- For Shirley / Denise Panek -- Ina, 1979 / Bea Medicine -- Urban dwellers / Kateri Sardella -- Mother / Juane Quick-To-See Smith -- Young warrior / Gayle Two Eagles -- Navajo sings / Nan Benally -- (A found poem) / Lenore Keeshig-Tobias -- Amazons in Appalachia / Marilou Awiakta -- Pow wow pictures / Nila NorthSun -- Pow wow / Vickie Sears -- 49 / Nila NorthSun.
Oklahoma rt 66 / Nora Naranjo-Morse -- Witchcraft / Nora Naranjo-Morse -- Witchcraft woman / Nora Naranjo-Morse -- Devil and sister Lena / Anna Lee Walters -- I'm making you up / Chrystos -- Spider dream / Elaine Hall -- Spider, world-spinner / Elaine Hall -- October morning walk / Anita Endrezze -- From the Salt Lake City airport -- 82 / Joy Harjo -- Barbara / Mary Moran -- Sex. class and race intersections/visions of women of color / Carol Lee Sanchez -- His half-breed wife / Doris Seale -- Real people / Merry Harris -- Green corn festival / Merry Harris -- Stories from the res / Nila North Sun -- Precous bits of family / Linda Belarde -- My wild birds flying / Mary TallMountain -- Oregon story / Janice Gould -- Caves / Janice Gould -- Wild turnips / Barbara Cameron -- Reservation girls / Nila NorthSun -- . Sweet grass is around her / Salli Benedict -- Drawings / Juane Quick-To-See Smith -- Smith, Self-portrait / Juane Quict-To-See Smith -- Rug of woven magic / Nan Benally -- You smell like grandma's beads / Elizabeth Woody -- Short autobiography / Dorothy Hayes.
Woman's Head / Dorothy Hayes -- Song for healing / Margot LeBrasseur -- Well you caught me unprepared / Wendy Rose -- Thoughts on Indian feminism / Kate Stanley -- Keep a dime / Debra Swallow -- Breeze swept through / Luci Tapahonso -- This woman that I am becoming / Marcie R. Rendon -- Tremolo / Joan Shaddox Isom -- Native woman -- 1982 / Karen Cooper -- Pencil self-portrait / Rosemary Anderson -- I am listening: a lyric of roots / Anita Valerio -- Woman / Chrystos. .
Additional Physical Form available Note:
Also issued online.
Subject:
Indian women > Literary collections.
Indians of North America > Literary collections.
American literature > Indian authors.
Canadian literature > Indian authors.
American literature > Women authors.
Canadian literature > Women authors.
American literature > 20th century.
Canadian literature > 20th century.
Women > Literary collections.
Canadian literature (English) > Indian authors.
Canadian literature (English) > Women authors.
Canadian literature (English) > 20th century.
Canadian literature > Indian authors.
Canadian literature > Women authors.
Indian women.
Indians of North America.
Women.
Genre:
Literary collections.

Available copies

  • 1 of 1 copy available at Northwest Indian College.

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Location Call Number / Copy Notes Barcode Shelving Location Status Due Date
Lummi Library PS 508 .I5 G27 1988 282729 Stacks Reshelving -