The Sacred Hoop: Recovering the Feminine in American Indian Traditions

1. Linda Hogan, “Blessing,” in Calling Myself Home (New
York: Greenfield Review Press, 1978), p. 27. Also in The
Remembered Earth, ed. Geary Hobsen (Albuquerque, N. Mex.:
Red Earth Press, 1979; reissued Albuquerque: University of
New Mexico Press, 1981), p. 55.
2. Mary Randle TallMountain, “The Last Wolf,” in There Is
No Word for Goodbye (Marvin, S.D.: Blue Cloud Quarterly,
1981), p. 15.
3. Wendy Rose, “I Expected My Skin to Ripen,” in Lost
Copper (Morongo Indian Reservation, Canning, Calif.: Malki
Museum Press, 1980), p. 219.
4. Rose, “I Expected,” p. 219.
5. Leslie Marmon Silko, “Toe’osh: A Laguna Coyote Story,”
in Storyteller (New York: Viking, 1981), p. 237. Also in The
Third Woman: Minority Women Writers of the United States ,
ed. Dexter Fisher (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1980), p. 94.
6. Elizabeth Cook-Lynn, “Contradiction,” in Then Badger
Said This (New York: Vantage Press, 1977), p. 12. Also in
Fisher, Third Woman, p. 104.
7. nila northSun, “moving camp too far,” in Diet Pepsi and
Nacho Cheese (Fallon, Nev.: Duck Down Press, 1977), p. 14.
Also in Hobsen, Remembered Earth, p. 380.
8. Joy Harjo, “3 AM,” in The Last Song (Las Cruces, N.
Mex.: Puerto del Sol Press, 1975), and in What Moon Drove Me
to This (Berkeley, Calif.: Reed and Cannon, 1979), p. 43. Also
in Hobsen, Remembered Earth, p. 380.
9. Roberta Hill Whiteman, “Leap in the Dark,” in Fisher,
Third Woman , pp. 123–124. Reprinted, Star Quilt
(Minneapolis: Holy Cow! Press, 1984), pp. 13–15.
10. Hill Whiteman, “Leap,” pp. 123–124.
11. Linda Hogan, “Morning: The World in the Lake,”
unpublished manuscript, 1981. Revised version published in
Seeing Through the Sun (Amherst: University of Massachusetts