Sacred ceremonial objects stolen from the Minnesota Red Earth Reservation's Ojibwa tribe. Tribal Chairman Jed Morriseau murdered. Renee LaRoche is drawn into the investigation in this first Native American lesbian mystery, torn between the ways of her people and helping her chimook lover come to terms with the differences in their cultures.

Substantial, layered poetry, deeply rooted in the author's Native American landscape. Janice Gould shares a collective memory with the Maidu Indians of Northern California. Writing as a lesbian, an outsider, she unearths and exposes her tender places, her scars, and her sinewy strength. Winner of a 1992 Astraea Foundation Emerging Lesbian Writers' Award.

Renee LaRoche takes to her jeep and the investigative trail once again in the second Native American lesbian mystery from Carole laFavor. An unknown Indian woman found dead, a child pornography ring preying on Red Earth Reservation kids placed in white foster homes, and the unexpected appearance of Renee's ex from American Indian Movement days combine to heat up the action.

Edited by Beth Brant
The single best source for experiencing the vibrancy and breadth of contemporary Indian women's writing. "We gathered our spirit and called it faith. We gathered our spirit and called it love and hope. We are a community. We are a nation. We are alive." (from the editor's Introduction)

"Part autobiography, part poetry, part short story, and part unreconstructed American Indian myth. These are remarkable tales and unforgettable portraits." (Booklist) Beth Brant, a gifted Native American writer, explores her several families -- families connected by blood, by gayness, and by their urban working-class lives.

Writing about the violence of her childhood, her breakdown and institutionalization, her dislocation as a mixed-blood--a speaker of English--in a full-blood Hopi world, accomplished and powerful American Indian poet Wendy Rose includes all the poems that were "safely tucked away." In so doing, she bursts open the pain that both marks her and shapes her strength.

Native American songs are a telling, a bringing forth of power to be respected and honored. Vickie Sears' eloquent story collection sings the ordinary lives of Native children, women, and the Old Ones. "In her nimble debut, this writer offers probing stories that seem as much observed from real life as created in the imagination." (Publishers Weekly)

Anna Lee Walters is a Pawnee/Otoe Indian living and working on the Navajo Reservation in Arizona. This short story collection about contemporary tribal life was cited as "the best published work (1985) reflecting the life, history, or heritage of the Western Indian." Recipient of a 1985 Before Columbus Foundation American Book Award.

by Anna Lee Walters
Combining an autobiographical exploration of the influences on her writing with short stories embodying these themes, Anna Lee Walters reclaims her writing from the colonizing power of the dominant white society. Archival family photographs and the history of her Pawnee, Otoe, and Navajo relatives are documented background for her creative work.