Gathering of Spirit

Writing and Art by North American Indian Women

Plot

Expanded Edition of Sinister Wisdom Journal 22/23, July 1983

Introducton. A Gathering Of Spirit. The Mother Of Us All / Jaune Quick-to-see Smith -- Artifact / Edith Purevich -- Owl Woman / Amber Coverdale Sumrall -- The One Who Skins Cats / Paula Gunn Allen -- Thanksgiving Dinner During Pelting Season / Mary Moran -- New Shoes / Linda Hogan -- Blanket Shawl / Alice Souligny -- I Am Not The Woman I Am / Diane Glancy -- Trading Post-winslow, Arizona / Terri Meyette -- A White Man's Word / Debra Swallow -- Letter To The Little Shell / Gretchen Cotrell -- Drawing / Kawennotakie / Salli Benedict -- What Frank, Martha And I Know About The Desert / Alice Sadongei -- To The Spirit Of Monahestah / Charlotte Declue -- The Indian Women Are Listening : To The Nuke Devils / Wendy Rose -- Grandma's Story / Lynn Randall -- Celebration 1982 / Terri Meyette -- They Always Come Back / Winona Laduke -- Dispossessed / Janice Gould -- Canyon Day Women Blues, Woman Iii / Geraldine Keams -- A Family Matter / Elizabeth Cook-lynn -- Letter From Prison / Share Ouart -- Woman Warrior / Jaune Quick-to-see Smith -- Circumstance / Alice Bowen -- Canada's Natural Resource / Midnight Sun -- I Picked Up Your Cast Away Hide / Mary Moran -- Evelyn Searching / Denise Panek -- Returning / Kate Shanley -- The Trees Along The River / Luci Tapahonso -- The Lamp In The Window / Audrey Laforme -- Photograph And Statement / Rosalie Jones -- Cells, My Girlfriend / Mary Bennett -- Excerpts Of Letters / Rita Silk-nauni -- Dance A Ghost / Chrystos -- Sideshow : Julia The Lion Woman/the Ugliest Woman In The World / Wendy Rose -- Photograph Of St John's Indian School, Cheyenne River, South Dakota -- A Long Story / Beth Brant -- Mother With Child / Lenore Keeshig-tobias -- For Shirley / Denise Panek -- Ina, 1979 / Bea Medicine -- Urban Dwellers / Kateri Sardella -- The Mother / Jaune Quick-to-see Smith -- The Young Warrior / Gayle Two Eagles -- Navajo Sings / Nan Benally. A Found Poem / Lenore Keeshig-tobias -- Amazons In Appalachia / Marilou Awiakta -- Pow Wow Pictures / Nila Northsun -- Pow Wow / Vickie Sears -- The 49 / Nila Northsun -- Oklahoma Rt 66, Whitchcraft, Witchcraft Woman / Naranjo-morse -- The Devil And Sister Lena / Anna Lee Walters -- I'm Making You Up / Chrystos -- Spider Dream; Spider, World-spinner / Elaine Hall -- Tintype; From The Collection Of / Joy Harjo -- October Morning Walk / Anita Endrezze-danielson -- From The Salt Lake City Airport--82 / Joy Harjo -- Barbara / Mary Moran -- Sex, Class And Race Intersections/visions Of Women Of Color / Carol Lee Sanchez -- Photograph / Diane Reyna -- His Half-breed Wife / Doris Seale -- Real People, Green Corn Festival / Merry Harris -- Stories From The Res. / Nila Northsun -- Precious Bits Of Family / Linda Belarde -- My Wild Bird Flying / Mary Tallmountain -- An Oregon Story, The Caves / Janice Gould -- Wild Turnips / Barbara Cameron -- Reservation Girls / Nila Northsun -- Sweet Grass Is Around Her / Salli Benedict -- Drawings & Self-portrait / Jaune Quick-to-see Smith -- White Breast Flats / Emilie Gallant -- Rug Of Woven Magic / Nan Benally -- Poem & Drawing / Chrystos -- You Smell Like Grandma's Beads / Elizabeth Woody -- A Short Autobiography / Dorothy Hayes -- Woman's Head / Dorothy Hayes -- A Song For Healing / Margot Lebrasseur -- Canyon Day Woman Blues, Woman Vii / Geraldine Keams -- Well You Caught Me Unprepared / Wendy Rose -- Thoughts On Indian Feminism / Kate Shanley -- Keep A Dime / Debra Swallow -- A Breeze Swept Through / Luci Tapahonso -- This Woman That I Am Becoming / Marcie Rendon -- Letters Between Raven And Beth -- Tremolo / Joan Shaddox Isom -- A Native Woman-1982 / Karen Cooper -- Pencil Self-portrait / Rosemary Anderson -- I Am Listening : A Lyric Of Roots / Anita Valerio -- Woman / Chrystos. Edited By Beth Brant (degonwadonti). Bibliography: P. 232-234.