Images and identities -- The spirit world -- Crisis in the homeland -- The remembered earth -- All my relations -- Growing up -- affairs of the heart -- Language and learning in two worlds -- We survive -- Memory alive.
1. Images and identities : -- Reading poems in public / Maurice Kenny -- Indians Today, the Real and the Unreal / Vine Deloria, Jr. -- For Indians, No Thanksgiving / Michael Dorris -- 13/16 / Sherman Alexie -- The Truth Is / Linda Hogan -- The Two Lives / Linda Hogan -- Dear John Wayne / Louise Erdrich -- I Am Not a Mascot / Philip J. Deloria -- Sure You Can Ask Me a Personal Question / Diane Burns -- Plea to Those Who Matter / James Welch -- My Indian Name and Name Giveaway / Phil George -- The Delight Song of Tsoai-talee / N. Scott Momaday -- Adventures of an Indian Princess / Patricia Riley -- What I Am / Luci Tapahonso.
2. The spirit world : -- Carriers of the Dream Wheel / N. Scott Momaday -- The Creation: Iroquois Myths / Harriet Converse, Arthur Parker -- Origin of the False Face Company: Seneca Myths / Arthur Parker -- The Origin of the Long House: Seneca Legend / Arthur Parker -- The Council of the Great Peace / Arthur Parker -- The Creation or Age of Beginning: Dine (Navajo) Origin Myths / Hastin Tlo'tsi hee, Aileen O'Bryan -- White Bead Woman Marries the Sun and The Story of the Twin Brothers and the Giant Yeitso -- The Coming of Horses / Sandoval -- The War God's Horse Song / Tall Kia ah ni -- A Prayer of the Night Chant -- The Sun Dance / Luther Standing Bear -- Alone on a Hilltop / John Fire Lame Deer, Richard Erdoes -- All My Relations / Linda Hogan -- Old Man, the Sweat Lodge / Phil George -- The Origin of Eternal Death: Blackfoot Myth -- The Fawn, the Wolves, and the Terrapin: Creek Myth / Karl Kroeber -- The Vampire Skeleton: Onondaga Myth / John Bierhorst -- Raven Steals the Light: Haida Myth / Bill Reid, Robert Bringhurst -- Naanabozho and the Gambler / Gerald Vizenor -- Soul Catcher / Louis Owens -- Rite of Encounter / Russell Bates.
3. Crisis in the homeland : -- The Man from Washington / James Welch -- An Address to the Whites / Elias Boudinot -- from Pushing the Bear / Diane Glancy -- In 1864 / Luci Tapahonso -- The Navajo Long Walk / Howard W. Gorman -- Voices of the Invisible / Debra Calling Thunder -- Black Kettle National Grasslands, Western Oklahoma / Diane Glancy -- Buried Alive / Sarah Winnemucca -- from Yellow Wolf: His Own Story / Yellow Wolf -- Return to Bearpaw / Janet Campbell Hale -- December 29, 1890 / N. Scott Momaday -- The Ghost Dance War / Charles Alexander Eastman -- Three Thousand Dollar Death Song / Wendy Rose.
4. The remembered earth : -- from "Waiting at the Edge" / Maurice Kenny -- I Still Trust the Land / Leslie Silko -- Giant Bear / Leslie Silko -- The Time We Climbed Snake Mountain / Leslie Silko -- Slim Man Canyon / Leslie Silko -- Indian Song: Survival / Leslie Silko -- Hawk Nailed to a Barn Door / Peter Blue Cloud -- Buffalo Poem #1 / Geary Hobson -- Time / Joseph Bruchac -- We Are the Land / Paula Gunn Allen -- The Strange People / Louise Erdrich -- Skunk Dreams / Louise Erdrich -- Morning Glories, Eastern Phoebes / Louise Erdrich -- Snow Country Weavers / James Welch -- Five Rounds / Lorenzo Baca -- from Solar Storms / Linda Hogan -- Song of the Sky Loom / Brian Swann.
5. All my relations : -- My Father's Song / Simon Ortiz -- Remember / Joy Harjo -- The Power of Love / Michael Dorris -- A Second Adoption / Michael Dorris -- Halfbreed / Maria Campbell -- "Introduction" from The Way to Rainy Mountain / N. Scott Momaday -- Neon Scars / Wendy Rose -- A Special Treat / Luci Tapahonso -- They Were Alone in Winter / Luci Tapahonso -- Lullaby / Leslie Silko -- Wake Up! Do Not Be Idle! / Maria Chona, Ruth Underhill -- In the Hour of the Wolf / Betty Bell -- Ellis Island / Joseph Bruchac.
6. Growing up : -- A Son of the Forest / William Apess -- At Last I Kill a Buffalo / Luther Standing Bear -- from The Arapaho Way / Carl Sweezy, Althea Bass -- Beets / Tiffany Midge -- from Interior Landscapes / Gerald Vizenor -- The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven / Sherman Alexie -- Rayona's Ride / Michael Dorris -- Growing Up / Michael Dorris -- Notes of a Translator's Son / Joseph Bruchac -- The End of Childhood / N. Scott Momaday.
7. Affairs of the heart : -- A Classic Drop Off / Luci Tapahonso -- Tiny Treaties / Sherman Alexie -- Raisin Eyes / Luci Tapahonso -- The Bingo Van / Louise Erdrich -- Love Song / Donna Whitewing -- Songs of Divorce / Traditional Chippewa -- High Horse's Courting / Black Elk, John Neihardt -- Going to School / D'Arcy McNickle -- Groom Service / Michael Dorris -- from Stoney Creek Woman / Mary John, Bridget Moran -- The Marriage of Red Paint and White Man's Dog / James Welch -- Earth and I Gave You Turquoise / N. Scott Momaday -- Love Poem / Leslie Silko.
8. Language and learning in two worlds : -- Lakota Language / Albert White Hat, Sr -- First Days at Carlisle / Luther Standing Bear -- The School Days of an Indian Girl / Zitkala-Sa (Gertrude Bonnin) -- Indian Boarding School: The Runaways / Louise Erdrich -- Indian Education / Sherman Alexie -- Tlingit Concrete Poem / Nora Dauenhauer -- Enchanted Enchanted Rattlesnake / Larry Evers, Felipe S. Molina -- The Man Made of Words / N. Scott Momaday.
9. We survive : -- Indian Humor / Vine Deloria, Jr. -- I Give You Back / Joy Harjo -- An Indian's Looking-Glass for the White Man / William Apess -- The Game Between the Jews and the Indians Is Tied Going into the Bottom of the Ninth Inning / Sherman Alexie -- The Man to Send Rainclouds / Leslie Silko -- Metamorphosis / Joy Harjo -- The Woman Hanging from the Thirteenth Floor Window / Joy Harjo -- The Big Snow and Food Rampage of 1892-1893 / Mourning Dove (Christine Quintasket) -- Street Kid / Duane Niatum -- Battle Won Is Lost / Phil George -- We Saw Days / Ted Palmanteer -- Captured by the Enemy / Chahadineli Benally.
10. Memory alive : -- Skeleton of Winter / Joy Harjo -- The Warriors / Anna Lee Walters -- Water Witch / Louis Owens -- The View from the Mesa / Shonto Begay -- Seeing, Knowing, Remembering / Linda Hogan -- Of All Tomorrows / Peter Blue Cloud -- Proviso / Phil George -- Celebration / Alonzo Lopez -- I Remember / James Welch -- The Voyagers / Linda Hogan.
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