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"Authors in this anthology are people of native ancestry from the Canadian arctic to the southern U.S. Themes include elements of mystery, finding a way, standing up, warriors, family ties, and the trail of our past."--WorldCat.org. 

224 pages : illustrations, map ; 23 cm. 

Contents:
Introduction / Trish Fox Roman (Ojibway) --
"My moccasins have not walked" / Duke Redbird (Chippewa) --
A mountain legend / Jordan Wheeler (Cree) --
When I was thirteen / Leslie Marmon Silko (Laguna Pueblo) --
Falling song / Daniel David Moses (Deleware) --
Loo-wit / Wendy Rose (Hopi-Miwok) --
An afternoon in bright sunlight / Shirley Scott-Bruised Head (Blackfoot) --
Sars's gift / Barbara Smith (Cherokee) --
Self-portrait: Microcosm, or, song of mixed-blood / Robert J. Conely (Cherokee) --
Gaal comes upriver / Mary TallMountain (Koyukon Athabascan) --
The hockey game / Wes Fine Day (Cree). Reservation blues / Curtis "Shingoose" Jonnie (Ojibway) --
The powwow drum / David Campbell (Arawak) --
Coyoti lost in a city / Henry Michel (Shuswap) --
Charlie / Lee Maracle (Metis-West Coast Salish) --
I lost my talk / Rita Joe (Micmac) --
Your buildings / Rita Joe (Micmac) --
Nipikti the old man carver / Alootook Ipellie (Inuit) --
My father / Maria Campbell (Metis) --
Glooskap visits the king / Joseph Bruchac (Abenaki) --
Reindeer herders / Alice French (Inuit) --
The old man's lazy / Peter Blue Cloud (Mohawk) --
We miss the bus / George Peequaquat (Saulteaux-Ojibway). Now that the buffalo's gone / Buffy Sainte-Marie (Cree) --
The moose / Glen Cooper (Cree) --
Running Eagle --
woman warrior of the Blackfeet / Beverly Hungry Wolf (Blood) --
What has happened to these working hands? / Linda Hogan (Chickasaw) --
The warriors / Anna Lee Walters (Pawnee-Otoe) --
Son of the sun / Willie Dunn (Micmac) --
The blue hand shield / Kim McLain (Cree) --
The pebble people / Roger Jack (Colville) --
Loss of the sky / Elizabeth Cook-Lynn (Crow Creek Sioux) --
Universal soldier / Buffy Sainte-Marie (Cree) --
Green grass, running water / Thomas King (Cherokee). The leap / Louise Erdrich (Chippewa) --
Celebrating Christmas in Sandy / Tyance Fiddler (Cree) --
Combing / Gladys Cardiff (Cherokee) --
Homecooking / Elizabeth Woody (Warm Springs-Wasco-Navajo) --
My father's song / Simon J. Ortiz (Acoma Pueblo) --
Artifacts / Frank Conibear (West Coast Salish) --
Grandfather bear / Earth Elder (Saulteaux) --
Moose to moccasins / Madeline Katt Theriault (Ojibway) --
The story of Payepot / Abel Watetch (Plains Cree) --
I'm making you up / Chrystos (Menominee) --
History lesson / Jeannette C. Armstrong (Okanagan) --
Weddings / Shirley Bear (Cree). The last word / Joseph Bruchac (Abenaki) --
Wesakachak and the geese / Jackson Beardy (Cree).