Includes bibliographical references (pages 303-306) and index
Contents:
We have to have ceremonies / Soge Track, Taos Pueblo Men and women lived with the seasons / Florence Kenney, Inupiat/Native Alaskan People cared about one another / Fran James, Lummi In my family, the women ran everything / Emi Whitehorse, Navajo From my grandmother I learned about sadness / Rose Bluestone, Dakota Still grieving over the loss of the land / Elaine Salinas, White Earth Ojibway The power comes from within / Ingrid Washinawatok, Menominee The cottonwood tree talks to me / Juanita Espinosa, Turtle Mountain Ojibway We are all members of a family / Laura Wittstock, Seneca I see an incredible force within Native people / Faith Smith, Lac Courte Oreilles Ojibway I give you seeds of a new way / Chrystos, Menominee The pipe ceremony is really cool / Cassandra Holmes, Lac Courte Oreilles Ojibway The Puyallup tribe rose from the ashes / Ramona Bennett, Puyallup I dream a lot / Ah-Bead-Soot, Puyallup You take care of the land, and it takes care of you / Virginia Poole, Seminole/Miccosukee We give energy to each other / Lois Steele, Assiniboine Let us survive / Roberta Hill Whiteman, Oneida You ... who have removed us : at what cost? / Wendy Rose, Hopi/Miwok We have a long history here / Cheryl Mann, Cheyenne River Sioux We are the caribou people / Sarah James, Gwich'in/Native Alaskan They're trying to sell our treaties / Esther Nahgahnub, Fond du Lac Ojibway The spirit takes care of us / Vi Hilbert, Upper Skagit There's some kind of healing force here / Rose Mary Barstow, White Earth Ojibway You defend what's sacred to you / Janet McCloud, Tulalip Our cathedral is the Black Hills / Carole Anne Heart Looking Horse, Lakota
