The Sacred Hoop: Recovering the Feminine in American Indian Traditions

Permissions Acknowledgments
Grateful acknowledgment is made to the following for
permission to reprint: “Whose Dream Is This Anyway:
Remythologizing and Self-Definition in Contemporary American
Indian Fiction” by Paula Gunn Allen is reprinted from
Literature and the Visual Arts in Contemporary Society, U.S.A.
20/21: Studies in Recent American History, No. 2, ed. Suzanne
Ferguson and Barbara Groseclose. Copyright © 1985 by Ohio
State University Press. All Rights Reserved. Reprinted by
permission. For the excerpts from Black Elk Speaks by John G.
Neihardt. Copyright © John Neihardt, 1932, 1959. Published by
Simon & Schuster, Pocket Books, and the University of
Nebraska Press. Permission granted by the John G. Neihardt
Trust. For the excerpts from Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko.
Copyright © 1977 by Leslie Silko. Reprinted by permission of
Viking Penguin Inc. For the lines from “The Way and the Way
Things Are,” “My Cousin Shadow,” and “Moving Camp Too
Far” by nila northsun from Diet Pepsi, Nacho Cheese (P.O.
1047, Fallon, Nevada: Duck Down Press, 1977), reprinted by
permission of the author. The lines from “I Came Far Today” by
Jeff Saunders from Four Indian Poets, John Milton, ed. (Dakota
Press, 1974), reprinted by permission of the publisher. The lines
from “Toward Spider Spring” by J. Simon Ortiz from Going for
the Rain (Harper & Row, 1976), reprinted by permission of the
author. The lines from “Vickie Loans Arrow, 1971,” and
“Vickie Loans Arrow, 1972” by Marnie Walsh from A Taste of
the Knife (Boise: Ahsahta Press at Boise State University,
1976), reprinted by permission of the author. The lines from