Yellow woman and a beauty of the spirit : essays on Native American life today

Silko, Leslie Marmon 1948- (Author).

Item details

ISBN: 0684811537
ISBN: 9780684811536
ISBN: 0684827077 (pbk.)
ISBN: 9780684827070 (pbk.)
Physical Description: print
205 p. : ill ; 22 cm.
Publisher: New York : Simon & Schuster, c1996.

Contents / Notes

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 203-205).

Formatted Contents Note:

Introduction -- Interior and exterior landscapes : the Pueblo migration stories -- Language and literature from a Pueblo Indian perspective -- Yellow woman and a beauty of the spirit -- America's debt to the Indian nations : atoning for a sordid past -- Auntie Kie talks about U.S. presidents and U.S. Indian policy -- The people and the land are inseparable -- Tribal councils : puppets of the U.S. government -- Hunger stalked the tribal people -- Fences against freedom -- The border patrol state -- Fifth world : the return of Ma ah shra true ee, the giant serpent -- Notes on Almanac of the dead -- Tribal prophecies -- Stone Avenue mural -- An expression of profound gratitude to the Maya Zapatistas, January 1, 1994 -- Books : Notes on Mixtec and Maya screenfolds, picture books of preconquest Mexico -- As a child I loved to draw and cut paper -- The Indian with a camera -- On photography -- An essay on rocks -- On nonfiction prose -- Old and new autobiographical notes.

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Indian philosophy
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