Copyright ©1983 by Paula Gunn Allen

All rights reserved. This book, or parts thereof, must not be reproduced in any form without permission from the publisher.

First Edition

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Aunt Lute Books

PO Box 410687

San Francisco, CA 94141

Parts of this work in somewhat different form have appeared in the following publications:

Shantih (vol. II, #2, 1979)

Ikon (spring 1983)

New Lesbian Writing (Grey Fox Press, 1983)

That’s What She Said (Indiana Univ. Press 1983)

Originally published by Spinsters, Ink, 1983.

Cover art: © Helen Hardin 1983, Hohokam Shadows, acrylic

Cover photo: © Cradoc Bagshaw 1992

Cover design: Pamela Wilson Design Studio

Text design: Linda Jupiter, Sherry Thomas, Jean Swallow

Typesetting: Community Press, San Francisco

Printed in the U.S.A. on acid-free paper.

The publication of this book was originally made possible, in part, with public funds from the Literature Panel of the New York State Council on the Arts and The National Endowment for the Arts.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Allen, Paula Gunn.

The woman who owned the shadows / Paula Gunn Allen.

213 P. :22cm.

ISBN 1-879960-18-4 (pbk.)

Ebook ISBN 978-1-939904-17-1

1. Indians of North America—Fiction. I. Title.

PS3551.L397W6      1994	94-5839
813’.54-dc20	CIP