The Sacred Hoop: Recovering the Feminine in American Indian Traditions

Contents
Preface to the 1992 Edition
Introduction
The Ways of Our Grandmothers
Grandmother of the Sun: Ritual Gynocracy in Native America
When Women Throw Down Bundles: Strong Women Make
Strong Nations
Where I Come from Is Like This
The Word Warriors
The Sacred Hoop: A Contemporary Perspective
Whose Dream Is This Anyway? Remythologizing and Selfdefinition
in Contemporary American Indian Fiction
Something Sacred Going on Out There: Myth and Vision in
American Indian Literature
The Feminine Landscape of Leslie Marmon Silko’s Ceremony
A Stranger in My Own Life: Alienation in American Indian
Poetry and Prose
The Ceremonial Motion of Indian Time: Long Ago, So Far
Answering the Deer: Genocide and Continuance in the Poetry of
American Indian Women
This Wilderness in My Blood: Spiritual Foundations of the
Poetry of Five American Indian Women
Pushing Up the Sky