To provide a fresh look at Alaskan culture, editor Bruchac has compiled an assortment of poems, stories, essays, plays, and journal excerpts from the writings of native Alaskans. All deal with the transitions, losses, struggles, and successes of life in a changing homeland. Many of the writers vividly remember the changes, good and bad, that statehood brought. More than one (most notably Robert H. Davis) remark on the irony of a white culture that stripped natives of their heritage and now asks them to revive it for politically correct university courses. Some of the 23 writers are well known (Mary TallMountain and Fred Bigjim, for example), while others are celebrating their first publication. Most authors provide short autobiographies presenting their cultural and literary influences as an introduction to their statement.
Greenfield Review Press

Reclaiming the Vision has its genesis in a gathering of more than 200 North American Native writers which took place in July of 1992. That landmark conference, called Returning The Gift, made the encouragement of Native American youth one of its main goals. Through major funding from the Bay Foundation, the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation and the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, that conference and a series of Outreach Workshops conducted by Native American writers in Native classrooms around the continent - from New York City to Alaska - focused on the place of literature in the lives of young Native Americans. Special attention was paid to the ways in which writing can foster hope, build self-esteem, provide guidance and shape a vision of a better future. A Dissemination Grant was provided by the W.K. Kellogg Foundation to help share some of the results of the festival through a special publication. The result is this carefully edited volume that blends together work from many of the Native writers who have been a part of Returning The Gift and Wordcraft Circle, the mentoring organization that is an outgrowth of the 1992 festival. Edited by Lee Francis and James Bruchac, it includes transcripts from the plenary sessions of Returning The Gift, sections on storytelling, the writing of poetry, fiction and autobiography, exercises which use Native American writing to generate work from student writers, and an anthology of poetry and prose by American Indian students. Reclaiming the Vision is a book to be treasured by anyone interested in Native American literature or the teaching of Native American students. If you are looking for a vision, look this way. 
Greenfield Review Press

Linda Hogan (Chickasaw)
"I'm dreaming the old turtle back." So begins Hogan's journey. For Native Americans, the journey home is what tells them of their history, the mystery of their very lives, and leads them toward fullness and strength. According to Hogan, these poems and tales were part of her return, helping her identify with her tribe and the Oklahoma earth, the powers of ancestors and clay: "We are plodding creatures/ like the turtle." The story of Native Americans is about more than ancestry and land; it is as much about the politics and betrayals that led them into the Red Hills. Half this collection is prose, woven together with history both personal and tribal. Like the poems, these stories burn with emotion and a great sense of truth, but they concern themselves as much with narrative. Set in the world of the Chickasaws, "with a veneer of Christianity that shone across the old ways," the tales provide a rare and memorable picture of this rich and noble culture. This book will be appreciated beyond the usual small number of poetry/essay readers. Highly recommended.
- Louis McKee
Greenfield Review Press

by Jayanta Mahapatra
Note on the local of these poems: Orissa is an Indian state situated on the Bay of Bengal between West Bangal and Andhra.  Today Orissa only remains a fraction of the vast empire of Kalinga that was so powerful in the centuries before and around the Christian era.  Dense jungles still cover a great area of the land, and mountains stretch away to the west towards Central India.  Orissa still is the hone of the majestic tiger, the bear and the wild elephant - and are easily encountered only a few miles away from the state's ancient town, Cuttack.  The poems within refect this town its history and its continuation as a place sacred with temples and ruins living in coexistence for different faiths: not only for Hindus, but for Vaishnabas, Shaivas, Tantrists, Buddhists and Jains.
Greenfield Review Press

 Ha-yen-doh-nees/ Leo Cooper (Seneca)

Authentic traditional tales in versions never published before. Illustrated by Beth Clark.

Bowman Books

by Kim Shuck
These poems invite you into Kim's worlds of granddaughter, docent, teacher, mother and visionary and share her early experiences in native community life along with her continuous experiences in big city living.  Read in when you have time for tears, of your own memories of death and survival, love and abandonment.  The depth and clarity of Smuggling Cherokee will fill your spirit and heart.
Greenfield Review Press

Denise Sweet (Anishinabe)
"These pages take us on a rich and fascinating journey, transporting us through history on memory's voices, singing a new vision of the familiar. Though her subjects vary from a visit to the mission at White Earth to parking a car, Denise Sweet brings freshness to each. The poems leave markers where they have touched us, places we will return to to remember the startling beauty of a phrase, the quiet wisdom of a story, the good humor of our poet companion. She carries us to the brink of discovery; her words push us over." -- Kim Blaeser, author of 'Trailing You'
Greenfield Review Press

Edited by Joseph Bruchac, this anthology ncludes 52 contributors from 35 different nations . . .
Greenfield Review Press

Bruchac, Jesse (Abenaki)

A new collection of original flute songs inspired by the gifts of the natural world. Compact Disc.
Good Mind Records

Bruchac, Jesse (Abenaki)

Rattle, drum, flute, and vocals. More than thirty traditional and original compositions. Compact Disk.
Good Mind Records