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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Brant, Beth, 1941-2015, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Indian women--Literary collections.

Indian women.

Indians of North America--Literary collections.

Indians of North America.

American literature--Indian authors.

American literature.

Canadian literature--Indian authors.

Canadian literature.

American literature--Women authors.

Canadian literature--Women authors.

American literature--20th century.

Canadian literature--20th century.

Women--Literary collections.

Women.

Genre:

Literary collections.

Literature.

Poetry.

Physical Description:

238 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

monochrome

Place of Publication:

Ithaca, N.Y. : Firebrand Books, [1988]

System Details:

text file

Summary:

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

Contents:

The mother of us all / drawing by Jaune Quick-To-See Smith

Artifact / poem by Edith Purevich

Owl woman / poem by Amber Coverdale Sumrall

The one who skins cats / poem by Paula Gunn Allen

Thanksgiving dinner during pelting season (1957) / poem by Mary Moran

New shoes / narrative by Linda Hogan

Blanket shawl / painting by Alice Souligny

I am not the woman I am / poem by Diane Glancy

Trading post

Winslow, Arizona / poem by Terri Meyette

A white man's word / narrative by Debra Swallow

Letter to the Little Shell / poem by Gretchen Cotrell

Drawing / by Kawennotakie (Salli Benedict)

What Frank, Martha and I know about the desert / poem by Alice Sadongei

To the spirit of Monahsetah / poem by Charlotte DeClue

The Indian women are listening : to the nuke devils / poem by Wendy Rose

Grandma's story / narrative by Lynn Randall

Celebration 1982 / poem by Terri Meyette

"They always come back" / interview with Winona LaDuke

Dispossessed / poem by Janice Gould

Canyon day woman blues, woman III / poem by Geraldine Keams

A family matter / narrative by Elizabeth Cook-Lynn

Letter from prison / by Share Ouart

Woman warrior / drawing by Juane Quick-To-See Smith

Circumstance / poem by Alice Bowen

Canada's natural resource / essay by Midnight Sun

I picked up your cast away hide / poem by Mary Moran

evelyn searching / poem by Denise Panek

Returning / poem by Kate Shanley

The trees along the river / poem by Luci Tapahonso

The lamp in the window / narrative by Audrey LaForme

Photograph and statement / by Rosalie Jones (Daystar)

Cells ; My girlfriend : 2 poems / by Mary Bennett.

Dance a ghost / poem by Chrystos

Sideshow : Julia the Lion Woman/the ugliest woman in the world / poem by Wendy Rose

Photograph of St John's Indian School, Cheyenne River, South Dakota

A long story / narrative by Beth Bryant

Mother with child / poem by Lenore Keeshig-Tobias

For Shirley / poem by Denise Panek

Ina, 1979 / poem by Bea Medicine

Urban dwellers / narrative by Kateri Sardella

The mother / drawing by Juane Quick-To-See Smith

The young warrior / poem by Gayle Two Eagles

Navajo sings / poem by Nan Benally

(a found poem) / Lenore Keeshig-Tobias

Amazons in Appalachia / essay by Marilou Awiakta

Pow wow pictures / photographs by Nila NorthSun

Pow wow / poem by Vickie Sears

the 49 / poem by Nila NorthSun

Oklahoma Rt 66 ; Witchcraft ; Witchcraft woman : 3 poems / by Nora Naranjo-Morse

The Devil and Sister Lena / narrative by Anna Lee Walters

I'm making you up / poem by Chrystos

Spider dream ; Spider, world-spinner : 2 poems / by Elaine Hall

Tintype from the collection of Joy Harjo

October morning walk / poem by Anita Endrezze-Danielson

From the Salt Lake City airport

82 / poem by Joy Harjo

Barbara / poem by Mary Moran

Sex, class and race intersections/visions of women of color / speech by Carol Lee Sanchez

His half-breed wife / poem by Doris Seale

Real people ; Green corn festival : 2 poems / by Merry Harris

stories from the res. / poem by Nila North Sun

Precious bits of family / poem by Linda Belarde

My wild birds flying / a sequence by Mary TallMountain

An Oregon story ; The caves : 2 poems / by Janice Gould

Wild turnips / narrative by Barbara Cameron

reservation girls / poem by Nila NorthSun

Sweet grass is around her / poem by Salli Benedict

Drawings ; & Self-portrait / Juane Quict-To-See Smith.

White breast flats / narrative by Emilie Gallant

Rug of woven magic / poem by Nan Benally

Poem ; & Drawing / by Chrystos

"You smell like grandma's beads" / poem by Elizabeth Woody

A short autobiography / narrative by Dorothy Hayes

Woman's head / sculpture by Dorothy Hayes

A song for healing / poem by Margot LeBrasseur

Canyon day woman blues, woman VII / poem by Geraldine Keams

Well you caught me unprepared / poem by Wendy Rose

Thoughts on Indian feminism / essay by Kate Stanley

Keep a dime / poem by Debra Swallow

A breeze swept through / poem by Luci Tapahonso

this woman that I am becoming / poem by Marcie R. Rendon

Tremolo / poem by Joan Shaddox Isom

A Native woman

1982 / poem by Karen Cooper

Pencil self-portrait / drawing by Rosemary Anderson

I am listening : a lyric of roots / poem by Anita Valerio

Woman / poem by Chrystos.

Notes:

Originally published: Rockland, Me. : Sinister Wisdom Books, 1984.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 232-234).

Other Format:

Online version: Gathering of spirit.

ISBN:

0932379567

9780932379566

0932379559

9780932379559

OCLC:

19066274