With an introduction by the editor and a map of Alaska Native Peoples. This "collection of twenty myths is an excellent introduction into the world of southeast Alaska Native cultures." (--Dr. Alexandr Vaschenko) John Smelcer has dedicated his professional life to recording the traditionally oral tales of Alaskan Native peoples; his latest book contains narrative myths and legends from the Eyak, Haida, Tlingit, and Tsimshian Peoples of Southeast Alaska. Thoroughly enchanting as literature and crucially important, along with THE RAVEN AND THE TOTEM and ALASKA NATIVE ORAL NARRATIVE LITERATURE by the same editor, as a reference resource, A CYCLE OF MYTHS "keenly captures the mystical world of Alaska Native legend and lore--a world in which the supernatural is natural."
"No collection of Native American mythology is complete without this book. The most comprehensive collection in print." -- Alaska Magazine
Salmon Run Press

Stan Padilla illustrates quotations from traditional Native Americans on the importance of educating young people using the time-honored values of The People. Good for young readers.
Book Publishing Company

This book contains a series of essays by Native Americans, Hispanics, and Anglos dealing primarily with the diet and health of the native peoples of the United States and Mexico. Several chapters contrast traditional diets with modern-day fare and its accompanying health problems. Traditional healing practices, or curanderismos, are also treated. Other chapters cover the raising and marketing of organic vegetables, the preservation of biodiversity, permaculture, traditional building practices, and the psychology of space and place.

1909-1910: Unangam Ungiikangin Kayux Tunusangin.

Alaska Native Language Center

The impressive breadth and variety of expression among Native Canadian writers is demonstrated in this fine collection. Contained in the volume are short stories, poems, selections from novels and an excerpt from a play. Some pieces--such as Peter Blue Cloud's and editor King's funny and ironic Coyote tales and Harry Robinson's lengthy poem about an Indian who becomes a circus hit in England-- are clearly designed to be read aloud, reflecting their continuity with oral tradition. Others, like Bruce King's eerie and ominous story of the Hookto, an evil entity that sucks the life out of its victims, seem more in the tradition of Stephen King than what most readers would think of as Native fiction. Not all the pieces are set in Canada--locations range as far as Oklahoma and the Southwest, and city dwellers as well as reserve Natives are depicted. The unsentimental, uncompromisingly authentic work thus reflects the increasingly pan-tribal nature of much Native art and discourse.
University of Oklahoma Press

This anthology contains a series of stories, poems, games, activities, and songs that pertain to Aboriginal peoples culture and lifestyles. The importance of the circle is explained in this book.
Canadian Alliance in Solidarity

Indian women's autobiographies have been slighted because of the assumption that women had a secondary and insignificant role in Indian society. Gretchen M. Bataille and Kathleen Mullen Sands cogently demonstrate in this book the creative vitality of autobiographies that, despite differences in style and purpose, clarify the centrality of women in American Indian cultures. Included is a comprehensive, annotated bibliography or works by and about American Indian women.
University of Nebraska Press

Historically, Native American storytelling has been an oral tradition, but this eclectic collection of 30 short stories by Native Americans is a promising addition to the tribes' growing written literature. "Words and stories free you so that you might know your own long shadows," says Agnes Yellowknee, a tribal librarian in the short story Trafzer created to serve as introduction. With varying degrees of skill, the contributors here describe those shadows-shadows of witches, tricksters, spirits, ghosts or of Native Americans dealing with sometimes gritty contemporary life. The stories range from Gerald Vizenor's "Oshkiwiinag: Heartlines on the Trickster Express," about a dentist whose office is a railroad car, to Anita Endrezze's "Darlene and the Dead Man," in which two sisters have a humorous encounter with a man anxious to quit this life so he can be reborn as a horse. Gloria Bird's "Rocking in the Pink Light" eloquently describes a mother's feelings toward her newborn son, while Richard Green's "A Jingle for Silvy" and Jason Edwards's "Dreamland" are moving tributes to friendship lost and found. Except for Vizenor and a few others, the authors are emerging talents who have been published in small and literary magazines.
Anchor