The Sacred Hoop: Recovering the Feminine in American Indian Traditions

of Adrian Recinos (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press,
1950), p. 82.
26. Morley and Goetz, Popul Vuh, p. 82.
27. Stirling, “Origin Myth of the Acoma,” pl. 10, fig. 2, and
121n.
28. William Brandon, The Last Americans: The Indian in
American Culture (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1974), p. 52.
29. Stevenson, “Sia,” pp. 40–41.
30. Kay Turner, “Contemporary Feminist Rituals,” in The
Politics of Women’s Spirituality: Essays on the Rise of
Spiritual Power Within the Feminist Movement, ed. Charlene
Spretnak (New York: Anchor, 1982), p. 228.
31. Boas, Keresan Texts, pp. 64–65.
32. Boas, Keresan Texts, pp. 56–75.
33. Boas, Keresan Texts, p. 62.
When Women Throw Down Bundles: Strong
Women Make Strong Nations
1. Stan Steiner, The New Indians (New York: Dell, Delta
Books, 1968), p. 224. Steiner’s chapter on Indian women,
“Changing Women,” is an important contribution to our
understanding of the shift in women’s positions under
colonization. It should be read by those interested in learning
about contemporary processes of patriarchalization and tribal
resistance or acquiescence to it.
2. Carolyn Foreman, Indian Women Chiefs (Washington,
D.C.: Zenger Publishing Co., 1976), p. 7.
3. John P. Brown, Old Frontiers (Kingsport, Tenn.: State of
Wisconsin, State Historical Society, Draper Manuscripts, 1938),
p. 20. Cited in Foreman, Indian Women Chiefs, p. 7.
4. Foreman, Indian Women Chiefs, p. 9.
5. See William Brandon, The Last Americans: The Indian in