The Sacred Hoop: Recovering the Feminine in American Indian Traditions

54, 67; future trends in, 263–68; humor in, 158–60;
importance of, 42; interrelation of forms of, 62; loss of, 55;
male tradition in, 86–87; narrative structure of, 240–42;
novels/fiction, 76–101, 208; oral nature of, 66 (see also Oral
tradition); poetry, 149–50, 155–83, 208; simplicity of, 70;
stereotypes in, 78, 132, 151, 179; symbolism in, see
Symbolism; western view of/difference from, 54–55, 62, 67–
68, 72, 74, 79–85 passim, 109, 180, 235, 237, 241–44; by
women, 81–84 passim, 95–101, 118–26, 130–41 passim,
144–45, 147–83, 187, 208, 243, 264–65
American Indian Movement, 200
Andrews, Lynn, 77
Anishinabe Indians, 82, 97
Anthony, Susan B., 213
Apache Indians, 64, 197, 280n1
Apartheid, 190. See also Government policy
“Apples,” 134, 135. See also
Alienation
Arapaho Indians, 254
Arrow Youth, 28–29
Astrov, Margot, 64, 66–67, 68
Athabasca Indians, 156, 172
Atseye, Meta, 283n1
Awashonks (Sakonnet sunksquaw), 35
Aztec Indians, 20, 53, 197
Balboa, Vasco Núñez de, 198
Bambara, Toni Cade, 4
Bancroft, Hubert H., 199, 215
Bari Indians, 32, 33
Bear Man, 21
Bear Sings (wise man), 114
Beautyway (ceremonial), 21, 257. See also Chantways (healing