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Author Silko, Leslie, 1948-

Title Yellow woman and a beauty of the spirit : essays on Native American life today / Leslie Marmon Silko.

Imprint New York : Simon & Schuster, 1997, c1996.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe 2nd Floor Stacks  970.00497 Si34y 1997    ---  Available
Edition 1st Touchstone ed.
Description 205 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
Contents Introduction -- Interior and exterior landscapes : the Pueblo migration stories -- Language and literature from a Pueblo Indian perspective -- Yellow woman and a beauty of the spirit -- America's debt to the Indian nations : atoning for a sordid past -- Auntie Kie talks about U.S. presidents and U.S. Indian policy -- The people and the land are inseparable -- Tribal councils : puppets of the U.S. government -- Hunger stalked the tribal people -- Fences against freedom -- The border patrol state -- Fifth world : the return of Ma ah shra true ee, the giant serpent -- Notes on Almanac of the dead -- Tribal prophecies -- Stones avenue mural -- An expression of profound gratitude to the Maya Zapatistas, January 1, 1994 -- Books : Notes on Mixtec and Maya screenfolds, picture books of preconquest Mexico -- As a child I loved to draw and cut paper -- The Indian with a camera -- On photography -- An essay on rocks -- On nonfiction prose -- Old and new autobiographical notes.
Subject Indian philosophy.
Indians -- Folklore.
Indians -- Social conditions.
Indians, North American -- psychology -- United States -- Essays.
Folklore -- Southwestern United States -- Essays.
Social Conditions -- Southwestern United States -- Essays.
ISBN 0684827077 (pbk.) : $11.00
9780684827070 (pbk.)
Standard No. YDXCP 1378091

 
    
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