PREFACE
THE RONAN ROBE SERIES BY JAUNE QUICK-TO-SEE-SMITH
Introduction
Paula Gunn Allen
Grandmother
Snowgoose
Coyote's Daylight Trip
The Trick Is Consciousness
Star Child Suite
The Beautiful Woman Who Sings
Suicid/ing(ed) Indian Women
Poem for Pat
Donna
Robin
Womanwork
Madonna of the Hills
Rain for Ka-waik
(San Ysidro, Cabezon)
Kopis'taya
The Bearer of the Sun Arises (Fiction)
Diane Burns
Our People
Big Fun
For Carole
Houston and Bowery, 1981
Gladys Cardiff
Long Person
Tsa'lagi Council Tree
Tlanusi'yi, The Leech Place
Grey Woman
Outer Space, Inner Space
Where Fire Burns
Leaves like Fish
Simples
Nora Dauenhauer
Winter Developing
Skiing on Russian Christmas
Breech Birth
Pregnant Image of "Exaggerating the Village"
Jessy
Seal Pups
Kelp
Rookery
Voices
Genocide
Tlingit Concrete Poem
Charlotte de Clue
the underside of trees
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Healing
Morning Song.
Place-of-Many-Swans.
In Memory of the Moon. (A Killing.)
Ijajee's Story
To the spirit of Monahsetah
Diary.
Louise Erdrich
Jacklight
Balind's Dance
The Lady in the Pink Mustang
The Strange People
Snow Train
Painting of a White Gate and Sky
Dear John Wayne
Turtle Mountain Reservation
Scales (Fiction)
Rayna Green
Mexico City Hand Game
When I Cut My Hair
Naneye'hi
Coosaponakeesa
Another Dying Chieftain
Old Indian Trick
Road Hazard
Palace Dancer, Dancing at Last
High Cotton (Fiction)
Joy Harjo
Early Morning Woman
The Blanket around Her
Conversations between Here and Home
I Am a Dangerous Woman
There Was a Dance, Sweetheart
Someone Talking
There are Oceans
Fire
Obscene Phone Call #2
She Was a Pretty Horse
Carol Lee Sanchez
Prologue
Tribal Chant
The Way I Was...
Open Dream Sequence
Quotes from a Review
Yesterday
Conversations from the Nightmare
(The Syl La Ble Speaks En Erg Y/Sound)
Mary TallMountain
Indian Blood
The Last Wolf
Crazy Dogholkoda
Matmiya
The Ivory Dog for My Sister
Good Grease
Once the Striped Quagga
Ts'eekkaayah
Naaholooyah (Fiction)
Judith Mountain Leaf Volborth
Vihio Images
Self-Portrait
A Time of Turquoise
Three Songs to Mark the Night
Dusk Chant
Vihio Images
Goat-Woman Dares
Corn-Woman Remembered
How Came She to Such Poppy-Breath?
Iron-Door-Woman
Annette Areketa West
Coyote Brother Song
Naming the Rain
Child Poem
Poem for My Father
Blackbird Winter
Calumet Early Evening
glenpool
salt man
Roberta Hill Whiteman
Beginning the Year at Rosebud, S.D.
Midnight on Front Street
Lines for Marking Time
Star Quilt
Dream of Rebirth
The Long Parenthesis
Fire Dragon, Fall Near Me Again (Fiction)
Shirley Hill Witt
Seboyeta Chapel
Punto Final
Someday Soon I Will Be
La Mujer de Valor (Fiction)
Glossary
Bibliography
Contributors
Credits
