The Sacred Hoop: Recovering the Feminine in American Indian Traditions

Brandon, William. The Last Americans: The Indian in
American Culture. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1974. Still the
most complete and intelligent.
Brown, Dee. Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian
History of the American West. New York: Holt, Rinehart and
Winston, 1970. Reprint. New York: Washington Square,
1981.
Clark, Ella E., and Margot Edmonds. Sacagawea of the Lewis
and Clark Expedition. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University
of California Press, 1979. One of the best studies of
Sacagawea’s life and legend.
Deloria, Vine, Jr. (Lakota). God Is Red. New York: Grosset and
Dunlap, 1973. Paperback reprint. New York: Dell, Laurel
Books, 1983.
Etienne, Mona, and Eleanor Leacock, eds. Women and
Colonization: Anthropological Perspectives. New York:
Praeger, 1980. An important collection of articles on the
effects of patriarchal colonization of gynocratic systems.
Foreman, Carolyn Thomas. Indian Women Chiefs. Washington,
D.C.: Zenger Publishing, 1976. Suggests the enormous amount
of study needed on women’s roles in tribal cultures.
Foreman, Grant. Indian Removal: The Emigration of the Five
Civilized Tribes of Indians. Norman: University of Oklahoma
Press, 1972.
Grahn, Judy. Another Mother Tongue: Gay Words, Gay Worlds .
Boston: Beacon Press, 1984.
Gunn, John M. Schat-Chen: History, Traditions, and
Narratives of the Queres Indians of Laguna and Acoma.
Albuquerque: Albright and Anderson, 1917. Reprint. New
York: AMS, 1977.
Marriott, Alice. The Ten Grandmothers. Norman: University of
Oklahoma Press, 1945. Concerned with Kiowa culture and
belief and the Ten Grandmother bundles that are the ritual