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| Foreword | |
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| Preface | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Traditional Stories and Lives | |
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| Severt Young Bear (Lakota) and R. D. Theisz, To Say "Child" | |
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| Zitkala-Sa (Yankton Sioux), The Toad and the Boy | |
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| Delia Oshogay (Chippewa), Oshkikwe's Baby | |
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| Michele Dean Stock (Seneca), The Seven Dancers | |
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| Mary Ulmer Chiltoskey (Cherokee), Goldilocks Thereafter | |
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| Marietta Brady (Navajo), Two Stories | |
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| Boarding and Residential Schools | |
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| Embe (Marianna Burgess), from Stiya: or, a Carlisle Indian Girl at Home | |
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| Black Bear (Blackfeet), Who Am I? | |
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| E. Pauline Johnson (Mohawk), As It Was in the Beginning | |
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| Lee Maracle (Stoh:lo), Black Robes | |
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| Gordon D. Henry, Jr. (White Earth Chippewa), The Prisoner of Haiku | |
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| Luci Tapahonso (Navajo), The Snakeman | |
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| Joy Harjo (Muskogee), The Woman Who Fell from the Sky | |
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| Child Welfare and Health Services | |
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| Problems That American Indian Families Face in Raising Their Children, United States Senate, April 8 and 9, 1974 | |
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| Mary TallMountain (Athabaskan), Five Poems | |
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| Virginia Woolfclan, Missing Sister | |
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| Lela Northcross Wakely (Potawatomi/Kickapoo), Indian Health | |
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| Sherman Alexie (Spokane/Coeur d'Alene), from Indian Killer | |
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| Milton Lee (Cheyenne River Sioux) and Jamie Lee, The Search for Indian | |
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| Children of the Dragonfly | |
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| Peter Cuch (Ute), I Wonder What the Car Looked Like | |
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| S. L. Wilde (Anishnaabe), A Letter to My Grandmother | |
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| Eric Gansworth (Onondaga), It Goes Something Like This | |
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| Kimberly Roppolo (Cherokee/Choctaw/Creek), Breeds and Outlaws | |
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| Phil Young (Cherokee) and Robert Bensen, Wetumka | |
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| Lawrence Sampson (Delaware/Eastern Band Cherokee), The Long Road Home | |
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| Beverley McKiver (Ojibway), When the Heron Speaks | |
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| Joyce carlEtta Mandrake (White Earth Chippewa), Memory Lane Is the Next Street Over | |
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| Alan Michelson (Mohawk), Lost Tribe | |
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| Patricia Aqiimuk Paul (Inupiaq), The Connection | |
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| Terry Trevor (Cherokee/Delaware/Seneca), Pushing up the Sky | |
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| Annalee Lucia Bensen (Mohegan/Cherokee), Three Dragonfly Dream Songs | |
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| Notes | |
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| Works Cited | |
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| Source Acknowledgments | |
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| Contributors | |