Bibliographies

Native American Women and the Environment

Date: Thu, 8 May 1997
Karla M. Armbruster

Thanks to all who made suggestions!  Below is a list of the authors and
other sources that everyone recommended.

Native American Women and the Environment

(includes literature by Native and non-Native women from the U.S. and Canada and also secondary works)

Allen, Paula Gunn, The Sacred Hoop

Armstrong, Jeanette

Austin, Mary.  The Land of Little Rain

Awiakta, Marilou,  Selu

Beck, Peggy (et al.), The Sacred Ways of Knowledge

Brant, Beth

Cameron, Anne

Critical Matrix, Fall 1996, focuses on women and nature (Benay Blend has an essay analyzing Mary Austin's treatment of Seyavi, the BasketMaker).

Cruikshank, Julie (in collaboration with Angela Sidney, Kitty Smith and Annie Ned), Life Lived Like a Story: Life Stories of Three Yukon Native Elders

Dumont, Marilyn, A Really Good Brown Girl  (Dumont is a Metis poet)

Elizabeth Cook-Lynn, Why I Can't Read Wallace Stegner (U. Washington Press)

Erdrich, Louise

Glancy, Diane, West Pole and Claiming Breath (available from University of Nebraska, 1-800-755-1105; U of NB also has a new catalogue of books on the American Indian).  Also has a new poem in the current issue of Ascent literary magazine (subscriptions available through Concordia College, Department of English, Moorhead, MN)

Glotfelty and Fromm, The Eco-criticism Reader  (selected essays)

Gould, Janice

Green, Rayna

Hale, Janet Campbell

Halfe, Louise.  Bear Bones and Feathers

Harjo, Joy, The Woman Who Fell from the Sky and The Spiral of Memory

Hibbert, Vi

Hidden Scholars, anthology focusing on women anthropologists in the Southwest.

Hogan, Linda, The Book of Medicines and other works

Kerven, Rosalind, Earth Magic, Sky Magic

Kingsolver, Barbara

Maracle, Lee (spelling uncertain)

Murphy, Patrick.  Literature, Nature and Other

New anthology on Native women and the arts in the Southwest (U of Arizona Press)

Niethammer, Carolyn

Norwood, Vera.  The Desert is No Lady, Made from this Earth

Pijoan, Teresa

Rose, Wendy

Sarris, Greg.  Mabel McKay: Weaving the Dream (looks at a Pomo weaver and
healer and her connection to nature) and Keeping Slug Woman Alive (includes a critique of Paula Gunn Allen)

Silko, Leslie, Ceremony

Slipperjack, Ruby.  Honour the Sun (Canadian, autobiography).

Southeastern Oklahoma State University:  Second Annual Native American
Symposium--"The Beating/Beading of Many Hearts..." on November 14-15, 1997.  Contact Dr. Robin Murray or Dr. Elbert Hill, Department of English Humanities and Languages, Southeastern Oklahoma State University, Durant, Oklahoma  74701.  Deadline is August 15, 1997.

Summer Rain, Mary

Tapahonso, Luci.  Saanii Dahataal: The Women Are Singing

Thompson, Lucy, To the American Indian: Reminiscences of a Yurok Woman

Wickwire, Wendy  (ed. of Harry Robinson stories)

Zepeda, Ofelia

Phoebe (forthcoming issue):  papers from last year's multi-cultural writers conference at Oneonta.

Karla Armbruster
Sewall Residential Academic Program
University of Colorado
Campus Box 353
Boulder, CO 80310-0353

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