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A Gathering of spirit : writing and art by North American Indian women / edited by Beth Brant (Degonwadonti).

Brant, Beth, 1941- (Added Author).

Record details

  • ISBN: 0931103002 (pbk.)
  • ISBN: 9780931103001 (pbk.)
  • Physical Description: 238 p. : ill., ports. ; 22 cm.
  • Edition: 2nd, expanded ed.
  • Publisher: Rockland, Me. : Sinister Wisdom Books, c1984.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:
Bibliography: p. 232-234.
Formatted Contents Note:
Introducton. A gathering of spirit.
The mother of us all / Jaune Quick-To-See Smith -- Artifact / Edith Purevich -- Owl woman / Amber Coverdale Sumrall -- The one who skins cats / Paula Gunn Allen -- Thanksgiving dinner during pelting season / Mary Moran -- New shoes / Linda Hogan -- Blanket shawl / Alice Souligny -- I am not the woman I am / Diane Glancy -- Trading Post-Winslow, Arizona / Terri Meyette -- A white man's word / Debra Swallow -- Letter to the little shell / Gretchen Cotrell -- Drawing / Kawennotakie / Salli Benedict -- What Frank, Martha and I know about the desert / Alice Sadongei -- To the spirit of Monahestah / Charlotte DeClue -- The Indian women are listening : to the nuke devils / Wendy Rose -- Grandma's story / Lynn Randall -- Celebration 1982 / Terri Meyette -- "They always come back" / Winona LaDuke -- Dispossessed / Janice Gould -- Canyon day women blues, woman III / Geraldine Keams -- A family matter / Elizabeth Cook-Lynn -- Letter from prison / Share Ouart -- Woman warrior / Jaune 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 -- The trees along the river / Luci Tapahonso -- The lamp in the window / Audrey LaForme -- Photograph and statement / Rosalie Jones -- Cells, my girlfriend / Mary Bennett -- Excerpts of letters / Rita Silk-Nauni -- Dance a ghost / Chrystos -- Sideshow : Julia the lion woman/the ugliest woman in the world / Wendy Rose -- Photograph of St John's Indian school, Cheyenne River, South Dakota -- A long story / Beth Brant -- Mother with child / Lenore Keeshig-Tobias -- For Shirley / Denise Panek -- Ina, 1979 / Bea Medicine -- Urban dwellers / Kateri Sardella -- The mother / Jaune Quick-To-See Smith -- The 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 -- the 49 / Nila Northsun -- Oklahoma Rt 66, whitchcraft, witchcraft woman / Naranjo-Morse -- The devil and Sister Lena / Anna Lee Walters -- I'm making you up / Chrystos -- Spider dream; Spider, world-spinner / Elaine Hall -- Tintype; from the collection of / Joy Harjo -- October morning walk / Anita Endrezze-Danielson -- 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 -- Photograph / Diane Reyna -- His half-breed wife / Doris Seale -- Real people, Green corn festival / Merry Harris -- Stories from the res. / Nila Northsun -- Precious bits of family / Linda Belarde -- My wild bird flying / Mary Tallmountain -- An Oregon story, The caves / Janice Gould -- Wild turnips / Barbara Cameron -- Reservation girls / Nila Northsun -- Sweet grass is around her / Salli Benedict -- Drawings & self-portrait / Jaune Quick-To-See Smith -- White breast flats / Emilie Gallant -- Rug of woven magic / Nan Benally -- Poem & drawing / Chrystos -- "You smell like grandma's beads" / Elizabeth Woody -- A short autobiography / Dorothy Hayes -- Woman's head / Dorothy Hayes -- A song for healing / Margot LeBrasseur -- Canyon day woman blues, woman VII / Geraldine Keams -- Well you caught me unprepared / Wendy Rose -- Thoughts on Indian feminism / Kate Shanley -- Keep a dime / Debra Swallow -- A breeze swept through / Luci Tapahonso -- This woman that I am becoming / Marcie Rendon -- Letters between Raven and Beth -- Tremolo / Joan Shaddox Isom -- A native woman-1982 / Karen Cooper -- Pencil self-portrait / Rosemary Anderson -- I am listening : a lyric of roots / Anita Valerio -- Woman / Chrystos.
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.
Genre:
Literary collections.

Available copies

  • 1 of 1 copy available at Northwest Indian College.

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Lummi Library PS 508 .I5 G3 1984 283900 Stacks Reshelving -