The Sacred Hoop: Recovering the Feminine in American Indian Traditions

11. Momaday, House, p. 64.
12. Leslie Marmon Silko, Ceremony (New York: Viking,
1977). The term cousin-brother is used at Laguna to describe
the relationship between maternal cousins who are more like
siblings than cousins in their kinship system.
13. Silko, Ceremony, p. 30.
14. James Welch, Winter in the Blood (New York: Harper
and Row, 1974), p. 172.
15. Welch, Winter, p. 172.
16. James Welch, The Death of Jim Loney (New York:
Harper and Row, 1979), p. 91.
17. Welch, Death, p. 91.
18. Welch, Death, p. 91.
19. Welch, Death, p. 89.
20. Welch, Death, p. 167.
21. Welch, Death, p. 167.
The Ceremonial Motion of Indian Time: Long
Ago, So Far
1. N. Scott Momaday, House Made of Dawn (New York:
Harper and Row, 1968; New York: Signet, 1969). All
references are to the Signet edition.
2. Paula Gunn Allen, “Hoop Dancer,” in Shadow Country
(Los Angeles: University of California and Native American
Center, 1982).
3. Leslie Marmon Silko, Ceremony (New York: Viking,
1977).
4. Paula Gunn Allen, The Woman Who Owned the Shadows
(San Francisco: Spinsters Ink, 1983).
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