The Sacred Hoop: Recovering the Feminine in American Indian Traditions

35. Neihardt, Black Elk Speaks, pp. 42, 43, 44.
36. May, Love and Will, p. 124.
A Stranger in My Own Life: Alienation in
American Indian Poetry and Prose
1. Peter Martyr, The History of Travayle in the West and
East Indies, etc. (London, 1555), fragmentary translation by
Richard Eden, in William Brandon, The Last Americans: The
Indian in American Culture (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1974),
p. 291.
2. nila northSun, “the Way and the way things are,” in Diet
Pepsi and Nacho Cheese (Fallon, Nev.: Duck Down Press,
1977), p. 13.
3. Jeff Saunders, “I Came Far Today,” in Four Indian Poets,
ed. John R. Milton (Vermillion, S.D.: Dakota Press, 1974), p.
61.
4. Simon J. Ortiz, “Toward Spider Springs,” in Going for the
Rain (New York: Harper and Row, 1976), p. 25.
5. nila northSun, “my cousin the shadow,” in Diet Pepsi, p.
35.
6. Marnie Walsh, “Vickie Loans-Arrow, 1971,” in A Taste of
the Knife (Boise: Ahsahte Press, 1976), pp. 10–11. Cf. The
Remembered Earth, ed. Geary Hobsen (Albuquerque:
University of New Mexico Press, 1980), pp. 367–68.
7. James Welch, “Winter Indian,” unpublished manuscript,
1971.
8. Welch, “Blackfeet, Blood and Peigan Hunters,” in Riding
the Earthboy 40, rev. ed. (New York: Harper and Row, 1976),
p. 36.
9. Walsh, “Vickie Loans-Arrow,” pp. 4–6.
10. N. Scott Momaday, House Made of Dawn (New York:
Signet, 1969), pp. 78–79.