Living the Spirit

by Roscoe, Will

• ISBN13: 9780312302245
• ISBN10: 031230224X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1988-12-01
• Publisher: Griffin

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Table of Contents

List of Illustrations	xiii
Acknowledgments	xv
Preface	1	(8)
Randy Burns
I. ARTISTS, HEALERS, AND PROVIDERS: THE BERDACHE HERITAGE
Some Like Indians Endure	9	(6)
Paula Gunn Allen
Tinselled Bucks: A Historical Study in Indian Homosexuality	15	(17)
Maurice Kenny
Sex/Gender Systems in Native North America Midnight Sun (Anishnawbe)	32	(16)
Strange Country This: Images of Berdaches and Warrior Women	48	(29)
Will Roscoe
Ever Since the World Began: Berdache Myths and Tales	77	(20)
II. GAY AMERICAN INDIANS TODAY: LIVING THE SPIRIT
Children of Grandmother Moon	97	(9)
M. Owlfeather
Speaking Up	106	(9)
Erna Pahe
Grandpa's Little Girl	115	(4)
Debra S. O'Gara
Becoming Indian	119	(9)
Kieran Prather
Jerry
A National Disgrace	128	(3)
Lawrence William O'Connor
Gay American Indians Ben the Dancer (Yankton Sioux)	131	(3)
Selections from Raven's Road	134	(19)
Paula Gunn Allen
Winkte	153	(2)
Pima	155	(1)
United	156	(1)
Maurice Kenny
Coyote and Tehoma	157	(6)
Daniel-Harry Steward
Coyote Learns a New Trick	163	(4)
A Long Story	167	(9)
Her Name Is Helen	176	(4)
Beth Brant
Today Was a Bad Day Like TB	180	(2)
Savage Eloquence	182	(2)
Chrystos
Homelands and Family	184	(3)
Journeys of the Mind	187	(4)
Wewoka Oklahoma---Summer '85	191	(2)
Anne Waters
Understanding Grandfather	193	(2)
Daniel Little Hawk
A Freedom Song	195	(2)
Tala Sanning
Charleen Just Never Came Back	197	(2)
Mary TallMountain
O Mother Earth	199	(1)
Lawrence William O'Connor
``My ephemeral beauty . . .'' Midnight Sun (Anishnawbe)	200	(2)
``Your body . . .''	202	(1)
Nola M. Hadley
My Rug Maker Fine Ben the Dancer (Yankton Sioux)	203	(2)
``Stepping softly . . .''	205	(1)
Carole LaFavor
Horseshoes	206	(1)
Joe Dale Tate Nevaquaya
``Our lives go on . . .''	207	(1)
Janice Gould
``I have picked a bouquet . . .''	208	(7)
Richard La Fortune
III. RESOURCES
Contacts and Resources	215	(2)
North American Tribes with Berdache and Alternative Gender Roles	217	(6)
Contributor Notes	223	(6)
Sources and Suggested Reading	229