Messengers of the wind : Native American women tell their life stories / edited by Jane Katz.

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Katz, Jane B.
Language:English
Published: New York : Ballantine Books, 1995.
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Indigenous women > North America > Biography.
Indigenous women > North America > Social life and customs.
Genre:
Biography.
Physical Description:xi, 317 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • We have to have ceremonies / Soge Track, Taos Pueblo
  • Men and women lived with the seasons / Florence Kenney, Inupiat/Native Alaskan
  • People cared about one another / Fran James, Lummi
  • In my family, the women ran everything / Emi Whitehorse, Navajo
  • From my grandmother I learned about sadness / Rose Bluestone, Dakota
  • Still grieving over the loss of the land / Elaine Salinas, White Earth Ojibway
  • The power comes from within / Ingrid Washinawatok, Menominee
  • The cottonwood tree talks to me / Juanita Espinosa, Turtle Mountain Ojibway
  • We are all members of a family / Laura Wittstock, Seneca
  • I see an incredible force within Native people / Faith Smith, Lac Courte Oreilles Ojibway
  • I give you seeds of a new way / Chrystos, Menominee
  • The pipe ceremony is really cool / Cassandra Holmes, Lac Courte Oreilles Ojibway
  • The Puyallup tribe rose from the ashes / Ramona Bennett, Puyallup
  • I dream a lot / Ah-Bead-Soot, Puyallup
  • You take care of the land, and it takes care of you / Virginia Poole, Seminole/Miccosukee
  • We give energy to each other / Lois Steele, Assiniboine
  • Let us survive / Roberta Hill Whiteman, Oneida
  • You ... who have removed us : at what cost? / Wendy Rose, Hopi/Miwok
  • We have a long history here / Cheryl Mann, Cheyenne River Sioux
  • We are the caribou people / Sarah James, Gwich'in/Native Alaskan
  • They're trying to sell our treaties / Esther Nahgahnub, Fond du Lac Ojibway
  • The spirit takes care of us / Vi Hilbert, Upper Skagit
  • There's some kind of healing force here / Rose Mary Barstow, White Earth Ojibway
  • You defend what's sacred to you / Janet McCloud, Tulalip
  • Our cathedral is the Black Hills / Carole Anne Heart Looking Horse, Lakota.