The Sacred Hoop: Recovering the Feminine in American Indian Traditions

11. John (Fire) Lame Deer and Richard Erdoes, Lame Deer:
Seeker of Visions (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1972), p.
149.
12. Interview in Emma (June 1982). Reprinted in
Connexions: An International Women’s Quarterly , no. 8
(Spring 1983) pp. 6–8.
13. Phyllis Old Dog Cross, “Sexual Abuse, a New Threat to
the Native American Woman: An Overview,” Listening Post: A
Periodical of the Mental Health Programs, Indian Health
Service, vol. 4, no. 2 (April 1982), p. 22.
Who Is Your Mother? Red Roots of White
Feminism
1. The White Roots of Peace, cited in The Third Woman:
Minority Women Writers of the United States , ed. Dexter
Fisher (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1980), p. 577. Cf. Thomas
Sanders and William Peek, eds., Literature of the American
Indian (New York: Glencoe Press, 1973), pp. 208–239.
Sanders and Peek refer to the document as “The Law of the
Great Peace.”
2. Stan Steiner, The New Indians (New York: Dell, 1968),
pp. 219–220.
3. William Brandon, The Last Americans: The Indian in
American Culture (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1974), p. 294.
4. Brandon, Last Americans, p. 6.
5. Brandon, Last Americans, pp. 7–8. The entire chapter
“American Indians and American History” (pp. 1–23) is
pertinent to the discussion.
6. Ella E. Clark and Margot Evans, Sacagawea of the Lewis
and Clark Expedition (Berkeley: University of California Press,
1979), pp. 93–98. Clark details the fascinating, infuriating, and
very funny scholarly escapade of how our suffragette