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Title:

Children of the dragonfly : Native American voices on child custody and education / edited by Robert Bensen.

Publisher:

University of Arizona Press,

Copyright Date:

c2001

Description:

xviii, 280 p. : ill. 24 cm.

Subject:

Indians of North America--Cultural assimilation.
Interracial adoption--North America.
Indians of North America--Education.
Child welfare--North America.
Indians of North America--Ethnic identity.

Other Authors:

Bensen, Robert, 1947-

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [267]-271).

Contents:

Pt. 1. Traditional stories and lives. To say "child" / Severt Young Bear (Lakota) and R.D. Theisz ; The toad and the boy / Zitkala-S̈a (Yankton Sioux) ; Oshkikwe's baby / Delia Oshogay (Chippewa) ; The seven dancers / Michele Dean Stock (Seneca) ; Goldilocks thereafter / Mary Ulmer Chiltoskey (Cherokee) ; Two stories / Marietta Brady (Navajo) -- Pt. 2. Boarding and residential schools. From Stiya: or, a Carlisle Indian girl at home / Embe (Marianna Burgess) ; Who am I? / Black Bear (Blackfeet) ; As it was in the beginning / E. Pauline Johnson (Mohawk) ; Black robes / Lee Maracle (Stoh:lo) ; The prisoner of Haiku / Gordon D. Henry, Jr. (White Earth Chippewa) ; The snakeman / Luci Tapahonso (Navajo) ; The woman who fell from the sky / Joy Harjo (Muskogee) -- Pt. 3. Child welfare and health services. Problems that American Indian families face in raising their children, United States Senate, April 8 and 9, 1974 ; Five poems / Mary TallMountain (Athabaskan) ; Missing sister / Virginia Woolfclan ; Indian health / Lela Northcross Wakely (Potawatomi/Kickapoo) -- From Indian Killer / Sherman Alexie (Spokane/Coeur d'Alene) ; The search for Indian / Milton Lee (Cheyenne River Sioux) and Jamie Lee -- Pt. 4. Children of the dragonfly. I wonder what the car looked like / Peter Cuch (Ute) ; A letter to my grandmother / S.L. Wilde (Anishnaabe) ; It goes something like this / Eric Gansworth (Onondaga) ; Breeds and outlaws / Kimberly Roppolo (Cherokee/Choctaw/Creek) ; Wetumka / Phil Young (Cherokee) and Robert Bensen ; The long road home / Lawrence Sampson (Delaware/Eastern Band Cherokee) ; When the heron speaks / Beverley McKiver (Ojibway) ; Memory lane is the next street over / Joyce carlEtta Mandrake (White Earth Chippewa) ; Lost tribe / Alan Michelson (Mohawk) ; The connection / Patricia Aqiimuk Paul (Inupiaq) ; Pushing up the sky / Terry Trevor (Cherokee/Delaware/Seneca) ; Three dragonfly dream songs / Annalee Lucia Bensen (Mohegan/Cherokee).

ISBN:

9780816520138 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0816520135 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780816520121 (cloth : alk. paper)
0816520127 (cloth : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)44969259

LCCN:

00011169

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

N5UX522 -- University of Iowa Law Library (Iowa City)

OUAX845 -- Dordt University (Sioux Center)

PQAX094 -- Wartburg College - Vogel Library (Waverly)