S‡anii Dahataa_, the Women are Singing

S‡anii Dahataa_, the Women are Singing PDF Author: Luci Tapahonso
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
ISBN: 0816513619
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 110

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A cycle of poetry and stories by the Navajo writer explores her memories of home in Shiprock, New Mexico; of significant events such as birth, partings, and reunions; and of life with her family. By the author of Seasonal Woman. Simultaneous.

S‡anii Dahataa_, the Women are Singing

S‡anii Dahataa_, the Women are Singing PDF Author: Luci Tapahonso
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
ISBN: 0816513619
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 110

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A cycle of poetry and stories by the Navajo writer explores her memories of home in Shiprock, New Mexico; of significant events such as birth, partings, and reunions; and of life with her family. By the author of Seasonal Woman. Simultaneous.

Sun Tracks

Sun Tracks PDF Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 318

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Home Places

Home Places PDF Author: Larry Evers
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
ISBN: 9780816515226
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 116

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An anthology of writings by contemporary Native American authors on the theme of home places, including stories from oral traditions, autobiographical writings, songs, and poems.

The Sound of Rattles and Clappers

The Sound of Rattles and Clappers PDF Author: Greg Sarris
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
ISBN: 9780816514342
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 188

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In this anthology of poetry and fiction, ten Native Americans of California Indian ancestry illuminate aspects of their respective native cultures in works characterized by a profound love of place and people, as well as by anger over political oppression and social problems

Dark Thirty

Dark Thirty PDF Author: Santee Frazier
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
ISBN: 9780816528141
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 98

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Writing sometimes in dialect, sometimes in gunshot bursts, sometimes in sinuous lines that snake across the page, Santee Frazier crafts poems that are edgy and restless. The poems in Dark Thirty, FrazierÕs debut collection, address subjects that are not often thought of as Òpoetic,Ó like poverty, alcoholism, cruelty, and homelessness. FrazierÕs poems emerge from the darkest corners of experience: ÒI search the cabinet and iceboxÑdrink the pickle juice / from the jar. Bologna, / hard at the edges, / browning on the kitchen / table since yesterday. / I search the cabinet and iceboxÑthe curdling / milk almost smells drinkable.Ó Dark Thirty takes us on a loosely autobiographical trip through Cherokee country, the backwoods towns and the big cities, giving us clear-eyed portraits of Native people surviving contemporary America. In FrazierÕs world, there is no romanticizing of Native American life. Here cops knock on the door of a low-rent apartment after a neighbor has been stabbed. Here a poemÕs narrator recalls firing a .38 pistolÑÒbarrel glowing like oil in a gutter-puddleÓ--for the first time. Here a young man catches a Greyhound bus to Flagstaff after his ex-girlfriend tells him he has fathered a child. Yet even in the midst of violence and despair there is time for the beauty of the world to shine through: ÒThe Cutlass rattling out / the last fumes of gas, engine stops, / the night dimly lit by the moon / hung over the treetops; / owls calling each other from / hilltop to valley bend.Ó Like viewing photographs that repel us even as they draw us in, we are pulled into these poems. WeÕre compelled to turn the page and read the next poem. And the next. And each poem rewards us with a world freshly seen and remade for us of sound and image and voice.

Secrets from the Center of the World

Secrets from the Center of the World PDF Author: Joy Harjo
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
ISBN: 0816546819
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 76

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"My house is the red earth; it could be the center of the world." This is Navajo country, a land of mysterious and delicate beauty. "Stephen Strom's photographs lead you to that place," writes Joy Harjo. "The camera eye becomes a space you can move through into the powerful landscapes that he photographs. The horizon may shift and change all around you, but underneath it is the heart with which we move." Harjo's prose poems accompany these images, interpreting each photograph as a story that evokes the spirit of the Earth. Images and words harmonize to evoke the mysteries of what the Navajo call the center of the world.

Mud Woman

Mud Woman PDF Author: Nora Naranjo-Morse
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
ISBN: 9780816512812
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 134

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A noted sculptor turns her talents to poetry in a collection that explores the satisfactions and complications of being a Pueblo Indian woman in the late twentieth century

Returning the Gift

Returning the Gift PDF Author: Joseph Bruchac
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
ISBN: 9780816514861
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 412

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An unprecedented gathering of more than 300 Native writers was held in Norman, Oklahoma, in 1992. The Returning the Gift Festival brought more Native writers together in one place than at any other time in history. "Returning the Gift," observes co-organizer Joseph Bruchac, "both demonstrated and validated our literature and our devotion to it, not just to the public, but to ourselves." In compiling this volume, Bruchac invited every writer who attended the festival to submit new, unpublished work; he then selected the best of the more than 200 submissions to create a collection that includes established writers like Duane Niatum, Simon Ortiz, Lance Henson, Elizabeth Woody, Linda Hogan, and Jeanette Armstrong, and also introduces such lesser-known or new voices as Tracy Bonneau, Jeanetta Calhoun, Kim Blaeser, and Chris Fleet. The anthology includes works from every corner of the continent, representing a wide range of tribal affiliations, languages, and cultures. By taking their peoples' literature back to them in the form of stories and songs, these writers see themselves as returning the gift of storytelling, culture, and continuance to the source from which it came. In addition to contributions by 92 writers are two introductory chapters: Joseph Bruchac comments on the current state of Native literature and the significance of the festival, and Geary Hobson traces the evolution of the event itself.

Hopi Photographers, Hopi Images

Hopi Photographers, Hopi Images PDF Author: Victor Masayesva
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
ISBN:
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 120

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The work of the seven photographers presented in this book demonstrates that pictures of Hopi Indians and their villages by Hopi photographers have a sensitivity and clarity of meaning that is based on mutual trust and understanding. There is a sense of dignity and grandeur in these vivid pictures which are accompanied by a history of the work of photographers on the Hopi reservation.

From Sand Creek

From Sand Creek PDF Author: Simon J. Ortiz
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
ISBN: 9780816519934
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 100

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The massacre of Cheyenne and Arapaho women and children by U.S. soldiers at Sand Creek in 1864 was a shameful episode in American history, and its battlefield was proposed as a National Historic Site in 1998 to pay homage to those innocent victims. Poet Simon Ortiz had honored those people seventeen years earlier in his own way. That book, from Sand Creek, is now back in print. Originally published in a small-press edition, from Sand Creek makes a large statement about injustices done to Native peoples in the name of Manifest Destiny. It also makes poignant reference to the spread of that ambition in other parts of the world--notably in Vietnam--as Ortiz asks himself what it is to be an American, a U.S. citizen, and an Indian. Indian people have often felt they have had no part in history, Ortiz observes, and through his work he shows how they can come to terms with this feeling. He invites Indian people to examine the process they have experienced as victims, subjects, and expendable resources--and asks people of European heritage to consider the motives that drive their own history and create their own form of victimization. Through the pages of this sobering work, Ortiz offers a new perspective on history and on America. Perhaps more important, he offers a breath of hope that our peoples might learn from each other: This America has been a burden of steel and mad death, but, look now, there are flowers and new grass and a spring wind rising from Sand Creek.