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This section lists the multicultural publications of The Greenfield Review Press and its imprints Bowman Books, Ithaca House Press and Goodmind Records. Unlike the other sections of our site the titles listed here are authored by both Native and non-Native authors.

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Hidden Roots (paperback)

Joseph Bruchac (Abenaki)
"Hidden Roots" focuses on the greater impact that the generations of Abenaki that followed had to deal with. Readers will learn about the loss of identity, history and culture; lack of self worth and fear that Abenaki people were feeling, and still feel today. Middle grade readers love to see life as "being fair", and will totally understand that life is not fair in this story. This is a book that should be read in every middle school class, so that this history will not be forgotten, and never be repeated. - Judy Dow (Abenaki)
“Reprising his signature themes, Bruchac sets up this taut novel to reveal a chilling bit of history. . .The climactic shocker has the intended effect and is certain to have a searing impact on the audience.” – Publisher’s Weekly
Bowman Books

$9.95

Reclaiming the Vision: Past, Present, and Future Native Voices for the Eighth Generation

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

$15.95

Red Clay: Poems and Stories

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

$9.95

The Gospel of Mark translated into the Abenaki Indian, English and French Languages

Pial Pol Wzôkhilain (Saint Francis Abenaki)
This book contains the translation of The Gospel of Mark by Pial Pol Wzôkhilian into the Abenaki language presented here lightly edited, reformatted and for the first time with the inclusion of line-by-line translations in both English and French. Also included is a brief biography of this extremely influential minister, schoolmaster and interpreter of the Saint Francis Abenaki tribe. The Abenaki translation contained within is one of the richest resources and earliest recordings of the Eastern-Algonquin languages and should be of great value to students of the language, linguistics, anthropology and early New England history.
Bowman Books

$19.95

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