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Genocide of the mind : new Native American writing

Title

Genocide of the mind : new Native American writing / edited by MariJo Moore ; foreword by Vine Deloria, Jr.

Format

Book

Published

New York : Thunder's Mouth Press/Nation Books, c2003.

Description

xvi, 352 p. ; 21 cm.

Other contributors

Moore, MariJo.

Contents

• pt. 1. Keeping the home fires burning in urban circles. To carry the fire home / Kathryn Lucci-Cooper
• Blood flowing in two worlds / Mary Black Bonnet
• Home : urban and reservation / Barbara Helen Hill
• Indian in a strange land / Wiley Steve Thornton
• Everyone needs someone / MariJo Moore
• Unci (Grandmother) / Ben Geobe
• From Brooklyn to the reservation : five poems / Maurice Kenny
• pt. 2. Young American Indians : the need to reclaim identity. The genocide of a generation's identity / Gabriel Horn
• We, the people : young American Indians reclaiming their identity / Lee Francis
• Indians in the attic / Joel Waters
• America's urban youth and the importance of remembering / Dave Stephenson
• pt. 3. Native languages : where will they go from here? Song, poetry, and language : expression and perception / Simon J. Ortiz
• X. Alatsep (written down) / Joseph Dandurand
• Don't talk, don't live / Carol Snow Moon Bachofner
• Iah enionkwatewennahton'se' : we will not lose our words / James Aronhiotas Stevens
• The spirit of language / Neil McKay
• A different rhythm / H. Lee Karalis
• Names by which the spirits know us / Sean Lee Fahrlander
• pt. 4. Indians as mascots : an issue to be resolved. Symbolic racism, history, and reality : the real problem with Indian mascots / Kimberly Roppolo
• Indian as mascots : perpetuating the stereotype / Alfred Young Man
• Invisible emblems : empty words and sacred honor / Steve Russell
• pt. 5. Who we are, who we are not : memories, misconceptions, and modifications. Yellow Woman and a beauty of the spirit / Leslie Marmon Silko
• She's nothing like we thought / Molly McGlennen
• Manitowac : spirit place in Anishinaabe / Tim Hays
• Pyramids, art, museum, and bones : some brief memories / David Bunn Martine
• Identification pleas / Eric Gansworth
• Raising the American Indian community house / Mifaunwy Shunatona Hines
• The secret of breathing / Steve Elm
• The Indians are alive / Virginia Driving Hawk Sneve
• "Indians," solipsisms, and archetypal holocausts / Paula Gunn Allen
• Buffalo medicine : an essay and a play / David Seals
• Postcolonial hyperbaggage : a few poems of resistance and survival / Carter Revard
• About American Indian Artists, Inc. / Diane Fraher.

Subject headings

Indians of North America--Ethnic identity. Indians of North America--Cultural assimilation. Indians of North America--Biography. Indians in popular culture--North America. Indians as mascots--North America. American literature--Indian authors.

ISBN

1560255110