The language we know / Simon Ortiz -- The warriors / Anna Lee Walters -- From Waterlily / Ella Cara Deloria -- From Life among the Piutes / Sara Winnemucca Hopkins -- Ni-Bo-Wi-Se-Gwe / Ignatia Broker -- Wasichus in the hills / Black Elk as told to John G. Neihardt -- At last I kill a buffalo / Luther Standing Bear -- From The middle five : Indian schoolboys of the Omaha Tribe / Francis La Flesche -- From Lame Deer : seeker of visions / Lame Deer and Richard Erdoes -- From Love medicine / Louise Erdrich -- A day in the life of Spanish / Basil Johnston -- From Sundown / John Joseph Mathews -- From Mean spirit / Linda Hogan -- From The names : a memoir / N. Scott Momaday -- Notes of a translator's son / Joseph Bruchac -- Turbulent childhood / Lee Maracle -- The talking that trees does / Geary Hobson -- Water witch / Louis Owens -- Grace / Vickie L. Sears -- Uncle Tony's goat / Leslie Marmon Silko -- From Yellow raft in blue water / Michael Dorris -- The ballad of plastic Fred / Eric L. Gansworth.
Summary:
A collection of accounts of native American life by twenty-two acclaimed native American writers features tales, remembrances, and thoughts on the future.
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.