Through the Eye of the Deer: An Anthology of Native American Women Writers / Edition 1

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ISBN-10:: 1879960583
ISBN-13:: 9781879960589
Pub. Date:: 09/01/1999
Publisher:: Aunt Lute Books

ISBN-10:: 1879960583
ISBN-13:: 9781879960589
Pub. Date:: 09/01/1999
Publisher:: Aunt Lute Books

Through the Eye of the Deer: An Anthology of Native American Women Writers / Edition 1

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"I am humbled studying these thoughts of my sisters. Theirs is not a knowledge that changes with the whims of society but a wisdom that will forever move with the contents of the universe." Darryl Babe Wilson, author of The Morning the Sun Went Down

Animal stories have been handed down through the rich oral traditions of over five hundred distinct American Indian languages and cultures, offering understanding about and guidance to the natural and social worlds. The fiction and poetry gathered in this collection honor these traditions, retelling and reshaping traditional narratives, by recalling their ancient wisdom and renewing their spirit in new contexts.

Contributors

Kateri Akiwenzie-Damm, Elizabeth C. Ali, Paula Gunn Allen, Salli M. Kawennotakie Benedict, Gloria Bird, Linda Boyden, Beth Brant, Carmen Buchanan, Ella Cara Deloria, Carolyn Dunn, Anita Endrezze, Louise Erdrich,

Lynda Martinez Foley, Janice Gould, Joy Harjo, Inés Hernández-Ávila, Roberta Hill, Linda Hogan, Monelle Boyett Holley, LeAnne Howe, Mary Ike, Shaunna McCovey, Judith Minty, Deborah Miranda, MariJo Moore, Mourning Dove, Jody Nokwisa Peiffer-Willett, Georgia Orcutt, Dawn Karima Pettigrew, Suzanne Rancourt, Catherine Ruiz

Cheryl Savageau, Stephanie Sellers, Leslie Marmon Silko, Griselda Suárez, Mary TallMountain, Luci Tapahonso

Georgiana Valoyce-Sanchez, Lela Northcross Wakely

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ISBN-13:	9781879960589
Publisher:	Aunt Lute Books
Publication date:	09/01/1999
Edition description:	1 ED
Pages:	284
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.60(d)

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Carolyn Dunn (Creek/Seminole/Cherokee/Choctaw), also of French Creole and Cajun descent, is a wife, mother, daughter, journalist, teacher, poet, fiction writer and catechist born in Southern California. She is the author of the forthcoming volume of poetry Outfoxing Coyote (That Painted Horse Press) and her work has appeared in the anthologies The Colour of Resistance and Reinventing the Enemy’s Language. She has taught at Humboldt State University, Four Winds Indian School in Chico, California, and Cal Poly Pomona. A member of the Mankillers, an all women Northern style drum group whose two CDs (All Women’s Northern Drum and Comin’ to Getcha!) are available on Without Rez records.

Carol Comfort (Cherokee/Choctaw), also of German and Irish descent, is the mother of three children, a teacher, writer, and social activist. She is particularly devoted to promoting equality for individuals with disabilities and differences. She is the author of Breaking Boundaries, a multicultural textbook for teaching developmental writing at the university level. Carol is both the Director of the College Reading Skills program and Lecturer in the department of English and Foreign Languages at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona.

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"Through the Eye of the Deer is far more than a wonderful book to read: it is a guidebook to life in the multiple world we really live in. It tells us of the many places the path of the sacred takes us, how to act when we get there, the dangers we will encounter, and how to get home." — Paula Gunn Allen, author of Woman Who Owned the Shadows
"Through the Eye of the Deer is a richly textured and powerful interweaving of the voices of senior Native women writers such as Leslie Marmon Silko and Beth Brant with the fresh dynamic voices of their younger sisters such as Carolyn Dunn, Monelle Boyett Holley, and MariJo Moore. I strongly recommend this outstanding anthology to everyone interested in hearing the voices of Native women." — Lee Francis, National Director, Wordcraft Circle of Native Writers & Storytellers
" I am humbled studying these thoughts of my sisters. Theirs is not a knowledge that changes with the whims of society but a wisdom that will forever move with the contents of the universe. Theirs is not a beauty that will wilt in a moment, but a wa'tu / ah'lo deep into the earth and deep into the universe that will not…This deer field contains food and medicine, understanding and a thought-deliberate power, fingers reaching toward forever. Through the Eye of the Deer is sweet like mountain fruit and powerful like the song that created the rainbow. — Darryl Babe Wilson, author of The Morning the Sun Went Down

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Editors Dunn and Comfort (Breaking Boundaries) bring together more than 50 pieces by almost as many authors and poets in this useful but somewhat frustrating anthology of work by Native women from the U.S. and Canada. Selections span time (the earliest pieces are from Mourning Dove and Ella Cara Deloria from the 1920s and 1930s) and numerous tribal traditions throughout North America. Centering on women's experiences, the first section concerns images of birth and creation; subsequent chapters deal with marriage and family, and women's powers and mysteries. Among works from well-known women writers are the prologue from Paula Gunn Allen's The Woman Who Owned the Shadows, and poems by Joy Harjo ("Deer Dancer" and "Wolf Warrior"), Luci Tapahonso ("Above the Canyon Floor") and Ines Hernandez-Avila ("Grandpa's Song for Little Bear"). Louise Erdrich is represented (in a selection from her novel Tracks), and so are Beth Brant ("Coyote Learns a New Trick") and Leslie Silko (material from Storyteller). Such new and emerging voices as Shaunna McCovey, Cheryl Savageau and Deborah Miranda are each accorded two selections. The collection, however, seems unbalanced. Many of the pieces, particularly those from the more noted writers, have appeared elsewhere, and most of these writers are represented by one brief entry, while lesser figures are granted more space. There are also curious omissions: there is nothing by E. Pauline Johnson, whom Beth Brant has described as the mother of Native women's literature. But despite its idiosyncrasies, there is enough material here to interest those already familiar with Native American literature, and to entice the uninitiated. (Jan.) Copyright 1999 Cahners Business Information.

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