The Sacred Hoop: Recovering the Feminine in American Indian Traditions

Cochran, Jo (Lakota), et al. Bearing Witness/Sobreviviendo: An
Anthology of Native American/Latina Art and Literature.
Special issue, Calyx: A Journal of Art and Literature by
Women 8:2 (Spring 1984). P.O. Box B, Corvallis, OR 97339.
Conlon, Faith, Rachel da Silva, and Barbara Wilson, eds. The
Things That Divide Us: Stories by Women. Seattle: Seal
Press, 1985. Contains new stories by Vickie L. Sears
(Cherokee) and Linda Hogan (Chickasaw).
Curtis, Natalie, recorder and editor. The Indians’ Book: Songs
and Legends of the American Indians. New York: Dover,
1950. Traditional songs and stories from a variety of
American Indian tribes. Includes some personal memoirs and
history. Superb.
Fisher, Dexter, ed. The Third Woman: Minority Women Writers
of the United States. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1980.
Fiction, poetry, and personal narrative by American Indian,
Chicana, black, and Asian-American women. Still unmatched.
Green, Rayna, ed. (Cherokee). That’s What She Said:
Contemporary Poetry and Fiction by Native American
Women. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1984. The
most recent and complete collection.
Hobsen, Geary, ed. (Cherokee). The Remembered Earth: An
Anthology of Contemporary Native American Literature.
Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1980. Essays,
poetry, fiction, and drama by American Indian writers. One of
the earliest and best anthologies.
Marriott, Alice, and Carol K. Rachlin, eds. Plains Indian
Mythology. New York: New American Library, 1975.
Traditional stories in western translation.
Niatun, Duane, ed. (Klallam). Carriers of the Dream Wheel:
Contemporary Native American Poetry. San Francisco:
Harper and Row, 1975.
Ortiz, Simon, ed. (Acoma Pueblo). Earth Power Coming.