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

23 writers, w/interview & essay by Wilma Mankiller.  Contents include: from La Dene / Caroll Arnett/Gogisgi -- The gift / Rilla Askew -- Red Clay / Marilou Awiakta -- Coming to Faces in the Moon ; Beat the drum slowly... / Betty Louise Bell -- Triptych: three Cherokee women in 1776 / Charles Brashear -- Bear Daughter / E.K. Caldwell -- The end of old Bill Pigeon ; The election of 'eighty-seven / Robert J. Conley -- Cicada pigs ; The unwelcome / Karen Candy Cooper -- First horses / Robert Gish -- A sense of continuity and presence / Diana Glancy -- The tribe called Wannabee / Rayna Green -- A man's luck / Catron Grieves -- Cherokee Religion: the Sun Goddess ; Double trouble / Raven Hail -- The literature of Indian Oklahoma ; The odor of dead fish / Geary Hobson -- To my new age "sisters" and "brothers" ; Homecoming / Cynthia Kasee -- Rebirth of a nation, an interview by Marilou Awiakta ; Keeping pace with the rest of the world / Wilma Mankiller -- What became of tribal Europe? / Ron Rogers -- The soldier who would ask ; One Indian and two Chiefs / Ralph Salisbury -- Dream in the house of strangers / Jean Starr -- Spudding in ; Stories that might even be true / Winn Starr -- The dispossession ; Mama's remedy for drinkin' / Glenn Twist -- Grand Mother Sun ; John Redeagle / Eddie Webb -- The grandfather corn ; The meeting place / Ron Welburn.
Greenfield Review Press

Alootook Ipellie (Inuit)
An intricate blending of written and visual imagery, this book is an Arctic journey interpreted through the mythological world of the Inuit people. With twenty short stories and accompanying pen ink drawings, it is the first publication to exclusively feature the writing and artwork of Alootook Ipellie.
Theytus Books

These remarkable essays by contemporary native Alaskans preserve traditional ways and offer a vision of a sustainable life that encompasses both the old and the new. Mostly Inupiat (northern Eskimo) living near Kotzebue in far northwest Alaska, the writers live off of the grid and off of the highway system in villages accessible only by air and water or, seasonally, by snowmobile. In fresh and unassuming prose, they describe such subsistence traditions as digging roots from mouse caches, fishing for sea mammals, gathering wild greens, and making seal oil. The culture, from potlatch dancing to blanket toss, that sustained and was sustained by these food-gathering activities is also brought vividly to life. Far from purveying a romanticized vision of native life, these essays include chilling memoirs of near-death on frozen trails, drunken life on urban streets, and abusive educational experiences. But contemporary modern life has its pleasures, too, including Internet cruising and university studies. An enlightening and lively exploration of native Alaskan life. - Patricia Monaghan
University of Nebraska Press

Robert Franklin Gish (Cherokee)
Collection of short stories. Gish is a master at evoking the cultural diversity of the West and the spirit of the people who live there--men who fecklessly believe themselves in easy control of their destiny, but who discover that their ordinary existence contains unexpected elements of mystery and terror, and that both love and hatred possess power that reaches beyond the present and across generations.
University of Nevada Press

Janet Campbell Hale (Coeur d' Alene)
In this collection of bittersweet autobiographical essays, Hale reveals and examines her often conflicting experiences as the daughter of a Native American father and mixed-blood mother, a single parent, and a fiction writer.
University of Arizona Press

Jordan Wheeler (Cree/Metis)
Brothers in Arms is a collection of three novellas entitled "Hearse in Snow," "Red Waves" and "Exposure." Being brothers means more than being born from the same parents. It means dealing with real life - growing up both physically and emotionally, dealing with emotional crises, and handling both public and private lives.
Pemmican

Robert J. Conley (Cherokee)
Distinguished novelist Robert J. Conley examines some of the most interesting facets of the Cherokee world. In 26 essays laced with humor, understatement, even open sarcasm, this popular writer takes on politics, culture, his people's history, and what it meanst to be Cherokee.
University of Oklahoma Press