Foreword: Reflections on Identity and Culture by Inés Hernandez
Introduction
Going Forward, Looking Back
“The Language We Know” by Simon Ortiz
“The Warriors” by Anna Lee Walters
The Nineteenth Century
From Waterlily by Ella Cara Deloria
From Life Among the Piutes by Sara Winnemucca Hopkins
“Ni-Bo-Wi-Se-Gwe” by Ignatia Broker
“Wasichus in the Hills” by Black Elk as told to John G. Neihardt
“At Last I Kill a Buffalo” by Luther Standing Bear
Schooldays
From The Middle Five: Indian Schoolboys of the Omaha Tribe by Francis La Flesche
From Lame Deer: Seeker of Visions by Lame Deer and Richard Erdoes
From Love Medicine by Louise Erdrich
“A Day in the Life of Spanish” by Basil Johnston
Twentieth Century
From Sundown by John Joseph Mathews
From Mean Spirit by Linda Hogan
From The Names: A Memoir by N. Scott Momaday
“Notes of a Translator’s Son” by Joseph Bruchac
“Turbulent Childhood” by Lee Maracle
“The Talking That Trees Does” by Geary Hobson
“Water Witch” by Louis Owens
“Grace” by Vickie L. Sears
“Uncle Tony’s Goat” by Leslie Marmon Silko
From Yellow Raft in Blue Water by Michael Dorris
“The Ballad of Plastic Fred” by Eric L. Gansworth
Acknowledgments
Other Growing Up Titles
Copyright
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