The Colour of Resistance

A Contemporary Collection of Writing by Aboriginal Women

Plot

A powerful collection of works in response to 500 years of colonization, and the worldwide celebrations marking the anniversary of European invasion. Contributors include Chrystos, Beth Brant, Joy Harjo and Lee Maracle.

Includes several *Lesbian contributors:
Poetry
*The real indian leans against / Chrystos
ancestors / Carolyn Dunn
Death mummur ; First people / Jeannette Armstong
*Grandmother ; Oldways Keeper / Vickie Sears
Resistnace ; Stone memory / Connie Fife
Squaw poems ; Helen Betty Osborne ; Memories of a really good brown girl / Marilyn Dumont
Sewing Memeories: this poem I've wanted to write ; Living history ; Certificate of live birth: escape from the third dimension
*Reveal his name / Gail Tremblay
Breaking trail ; First languabe / Roberta Hill Whiteman
Grandmother, grandfather ; Why this woman ; To you who would wage war ; Against me / Kateri Damm
Ogokwe ; Where will the children play ; Half breed / Nicole Tanguay
Bad taste in my mouth / Kim Caldwell
He fights ; Eagle dance ; O Canada / Lenore Keeshig-Tobias
The watchmen
Raven comes aboard
*untitled / Nancy Cooper
It must be / Linda Hogan
For Anna Mae Pictou Aquash ; The real revolution is love / Jo Harjo
The anglais, they say / Beth Cuthand
*For Paula Gunn Allen / Lee Maracle
On getting published ; Well I too am through with all ; That stuff / Doris Seale
Metis woman
Other dreams / Colleen Fielder
I am 1000 years old / Debra Haaland Toya
Another Saturday night ; Untitled ; Storyteller / Jeanetta Calhoun
Blueberry canoe / Annharte
Blue horses running / Laura Tohe
Woman ; Sisters / Haunani-Kay Trask / The tree that's gone / Heid Ellen Erdrich
Shaman ; The old hag-woman / Heather Macleod
Blanket poem #2: the pox / Charlotte De Clue
Ester ; Corell, Ok, 1950 / Kathryn Bell
Musical scream / Leona Hammerton
The native ones ; Braiding / Ribbons of revolution / Victoria Lena Manyarrows
jesus christ ; She lived while others talked ; My own grandmother ; you see this body ; This woman that I am becomming / Marcie Rendon
Fiction
Taino woman-child / edna H. King
*The laundry basket / Lee Maracle
Vision quest / Janet Beaver
*This is history / Beth Brant
Dying / Carolyn Dunn
The story of the people / ruth Huntsinger
The buckskin jacket / Jan Bourdeau (Waboose)
Diamonds in the forest / Shirley Bear
There was a Yaqui woman / Anita Endreeze
A memory of my sister / Scott Kayla Morrison
For crystal / Carol McFadden
Articles & Non-Fiction
Gays and lesbians of the First Nations / Susan Beaver
A Maidu in the city of gold: some thoughts on censorship and American Indian poetry / Janice Gould
Cherokee Eden, an alternative / Marilou Awiakta
Historical uses and contemporary abuses of alcohol and drugs by indigenous americans / Janet McCloud
*Interview / Chrystos