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Sky woman : indigenous women who have shaped, moved or inspired us / Native Women in the Arts ; edited by Sandra Laronde.

Laronde, Sandra. (Added Author). Native Women in the Arts. (Added Author).

Record details

ISBN: 9781894778190 (pbk.)
ISBN: 1894778197 (pbk.)
Physical Description: viii, 120 p. : col. ill. ; 25 cm.
Publisher: Penticton, BC : Theytus Books, c2005.

Content descriptions

General Note:

At head of title on half t.p.: Native Women in the Arts.

Formatted Contents Note:

Poetry -- Water is Siwlkw / Jeannette C. Armstrong -- Ancestral harvest / Kathy Ainsley -- Our grandmothers / Catherine McCarty -- Buckle up shoes -- Lullabies / Nicola Campbell -- Beginning Cherokee / Qwo-Li Driskill -- Potlach Series -- Poem IV -- Witness to this birth -- Little bear / Jessie Housty -- Salmon Bone Woman / Jane Inyallie -- Moccasins c. 1880 -- Kokum's hair / Nehi Katawasisiw -- Her face fills my eyes / Beverlee Pettit -- Nina De La Tierra -- Rafaela Perales -- A common misconception / Marcie Rendon -- Be who you are / April Severin -- What she did for Indian government / Ardith Walkem.

Short stories -- Voice of the beloved / Sally-Jo Bowman -- Her name is Peramonkoro! -- Chisato O. Dubreuil -- The woman who fell from the sky / Joy Harjo -- My aunt's kindness made a difference / Debra Isabel Huron -- Untitled / Lee Maracle -- My grandmother, my hero / Birdy Market -- Remembering beloved woman Maggie Wachacha / Marijo Moore -- Ingrid Washinawatok El-Issa / Richie Plass -- Sky woman / Janet Marie Rogers -- My hero my aunt -- (Cora) Eva Baptiste / Marlene Rogers -- Doreen Jensen-Journey with a cultural activist/artist / Alexis Macdonald Seto -- My kookum / Monica Sinclaire -- Spirit of the Wa'pus -- O little warrior / Gloria Okeynan-Sutherland -- Personal biography / Patricia Lena Teichert -- Tutu's gift / Penny Youngreen -- Learning to live with death: the example of my mother, Jean Homer / Merlin Homer.

Visual art -- She is the sky / Merlin Homer -- Skywoman / Kathy Ainsley -- We are not alone -- Remembering Batoche / Christi Belcourt -- Elysium sun goddess -- Soul sister / Carla Gilday -- Sky woman falls into the millennium / Barbara-Helen Hill -- Shell woman / Buffy Sainte-Marie -- Smoking prayer -- Woman with peach / Maya Christina Gonzalez -- Tikinaagan -- Spirit catchers / Maria Hupfield -- Muse / Brenda Railey -- Goddess of the yellow moon -- Dream goddess / Daphne Odjig -- Sandra Laronde's biography.