Synopses & Reviews
In recent decades, Native American literature has experienced a resurgence in prominence and popularity. Beginning with the 1969 publication of N. Scott Momaday's Pulitzer Prize–winning novel House Made of Dawn, and continuing with the work of Paula Gunn Allen, Linda Hogan, Louise Erdrich, and Craig Lesley, American Indian writers have become an increasingly visible part of the literary landscape. In this collection of thirty varied and powerful short stories, almost all being published here for the first time, emerging talents carry on the tradition of their storytelling ancestors.
About the Author
Clifford E. Trafzer is director of Native American Studies and the Costo Native American Research Center at the University of California, Riverside, where he is also professor of history and ethnic studies. He is the author and editor of nineteen books on the history, lives and experiences of Native American peoples, including Earth Song, Sky Spirit. Trafzer is vice-chair of the California Native American Heritage Commission, an agency that protects sacred sites and American Indian burial grounds. He live in Yucaipa, California.
Table of Contents
Introduction
Clifford E. Trafzer
The Witches of Eufaula, Oklahoma
Craig S. Womack
Names
Lorne Simon
Darlene and the Dead Man
Anita Endrezze
The Reapers
Jim Barnes
Spirit Curse
Annie Hansen
What’s in a Song
Maurice Kenny
Wisteria
Patricia Riley
Sky Burial
Richard Van Camp
Midnight at the Graveyard
Penny Olson
Memekwesiw
Misha
Cooking Woman
E. K. Caldwell
The Raleigh Man
Eric L. Gansworth
Bagattaway
Chris Fleet
Growing Things
Kimberly M. Blaeser
Oshkiwiinag: Heartlines on the Trickster Express
Gerald Vizenor
So I Blow Smoke in Her Face
Laura Tobe
Beets
Tiffany Midge
The Last Rattlesnake Throw
Ralph Salisbury
Never Again
D. L. Birchfield
Talking Things Over with the Boiler Man
Duane Niatum
A Jingle for Silvy
Richard G. Green
Roma and Julie: Indians in Duality
Barney Bush
Rocking in the Pink Light
Gloria Bird
El Sol
Guadalupe J. Solis, Jr.
The Mystery of the White Roses
Vee F. Browne
A Belated Letter to Christopher Columbus
Georges E. Sioui
The Atsye Parallel
Lee Francis
Grampa Pamsey and the Great Canyon
Darryl “Babe” Wilson
Looking for Hiawatha
Andrew Connors
Dreamland
Jason B. Edwards