Sister Nations : Native American Women Writing on Community

by Erdrich, Heid E.; Tohe, Laura; Laduke, Winona

• ISBN13: 9780873514279
• ISBN10: 0873514270
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-03-01
• Publisher: Minnesota Historical Society Pr

Summary

This anthology of fiction, prose, and poetry celebrates the rich diversity of writing by Native American women today. Editors Heid E. Erdrich and Laura Tohe have gathered stories from across the nation that celebrate, record, and explore Native American women's roles in community. The result is a rich tapestry that contains work by established writers along with emerging and first-time authors. Contributors include Louise Erdrich, Joy Harjo, Diane Glancy, Elizabeth Cook-Lynn, Allison Hedge Coke, LeAnne Howe, Roberta Hill, Kim Blaeser, Linda LeGarde Grover, with a foreword by Winona LaDuke.

Table of Contents

Foreword	xi
Introduction	xiii
Acknowledgments	xx
Changing Women	3	(62)
kateri akiwenzie-damm
Sleepwalker	5	(3)
Esther Belin
First Woman	8	(2)
Kimberly Blaeser
Shadow Sisters	10	(4)
Elizabeth Cook Lynn
A Woman's Old Age	14	(1)
Pauline Danforth
Piece Quilt: An Autobiography	15	(8)
Susan Deer Cloud
Welcome to the Land of Ma'am	23	(3)
Nicole Ducheneaux
Picking Indian Tea	26	(2)
Heid E. Erdrich
Craving: First Month	28	(1)
She Dances	29	(1)
Allison Adelle Hedge Coke
In the Fields	30	(5)
LeAnne Howe
Choctalking on Other Realities	35	(15)
Linda Noel
Stitch upon Stitch	50	(1)
Suzanne Rancourt
Sipping	51	(3)
Margo Tamez
One at a Time	54	(3)
Term	57	(2)
Limp Strings	59	(2)
Karenne Wood
Red Hawk Woman	61	(2)
Evangeline Parsons Yazzie
Vicks	63	(2)
Strong Hearts	65	(42)
Elizabeth Cook Lynn
A Cousin from California Shows Lip at My House, the First Time in Thirty Years	67	(1)
Susan Deer Cloud
Doe Season	68	(2)
Louise Erdrich
The Shawl	70	(8)
Lorena Fuerta
Anna Ghostdancer	78	(1)
Revah Mariah S. Gover
Conjure	79	(1)
Long Division	80	(2)
Linda LeGarde Grover
Cki-Ko-ko-Koho and the Boarding School Prefect	82	(2)
Debra Haaland
Mother's Love	84	(12)
Ines Hernandez-Avila
Tough Audience	96	(1)
Brother's Passing	97	(2)
Linda Noel
Close to Bone	99	(1)
Laura Tohe
In Dinetah	100	(5)
Karenne Wood
In Memory of Shame	105	(2)
New Age Pocahontas	107	(44)
Susan Deer Cloud
Her Pocahontas	110	(2)
Heid E. Erdrich
Butter Maiden and Maize Girl Survive Death Leap	112	(2)
Lise Erdrich
Fleur de-Lis	114	(7)
Lorena Fuerta
Untitled	121	(1)
Terry Gomez
Miracle	122	(11)
Linda LeGarde Grover
Ikwe Ishpiming	133	(1)
To the Woman Who Just Bought a Set of Native
American Spirituality Dream Interpretation Cards	134	(2)
Teresa Iyall-Santos
Grandmother, Salish Mathematician	136	(1)
Sara Littlecrow-Russell
Escape from the Rez on a Saturday Night	137	(1)
Marcie Rendon
what's an indian woman to do?	138	(2)
Annie Cecilia Smith
The Frybread Queen	140	(2)
Love is Blind	142	(1)
Not Indian Enough	143	(2)
Kimberly Wensaut
Alina in Kansas	145	(2)
Venaya Yazzie
after powwow	147	(4)
In the Arms of the Skies	151	(46)
kateri akiwenzie-damm
the one who got away	153	(1)
Esther Belin
Emergence	154	(5)
Vee F. Browne
Smile	159	(1)
Diane Glancy
The Great Spirit's Wife	160	(1)
The Abandoned Wife Gives Herself to the Lord	161	(1)
Joy Harjo
How to Get to the Planet Venus	162	(15)
Heather Harris
Coyote Meets His Match	177	(1)
Husbands	178	(1)
Roberta Hill
Elegy for Bobby	179	(2)
The Power of Crushed Leaves	181	(2)
Sara Littlecrow-Russell
My Books & Your White Women	183	(1)
Is It Too Much to Ask	184	(2)
Laura Tohe
The Big Rectangle	186	(1)
Tsoodzil, Mountain to the South	187	(2)
Eulynda Toledo-Benalli
Ashkii Nizhoni	189	(6)
Kimberly Wensaut
the way around losing you	195	(2)
Contributors	197	(22)
Information on Tribes	219	(7)
Notes	226