Growing Up Native American

Title Page......Page 3
Dedication Page......Page 4
Foreword: Reflections on Identity and Culture......Page 5
Introduction......Page 17
Part One: Going Forward, Looking Back......Page 21
“The Language We Know” by Simon Ortiz......Page 23
“The Warriors” by Anna Lee Walters......Page 33
Part Two: The Nineteenth Century......Page 49
From Waterlily by Ella Cara Deloria......Page 51
From Life Among the Piutes by Sara Winnemucca Hopkins......Page 67
“Wasichus in the Hills” by Black Elk as told to John G. Neihardt......Page 81
“At Last I Kill a Buffalo” by Luther Standing Bear......Page 101
Part Three: Schooldays......Page 109
From The Middle Five: Indian Schoolboys of the Omaha Tribe by Francis La Flesche......Page 111
From Lame Deer: Seeker of Visions by Lame Deer and Richard Erdoes......Page 129
From Love Medicine by Louise Erdrich......Page 145
“A Day in the Life of Spanish” by Basil Johnston......Page 161
Part Four: Twentieth Century......Page 183
From Sundown by John Joseph Mathews......Page 185
From Mean Spirit by Linda Hogan......Page 197
From The Names: A Memoir by N. Scott Momaday......Page 209
“Notes of a Translator’s Son” by Joseph Bruchac......Page 231
“Turbulent Childhood” by Lee Maracle......Page 241
“The Talking That Trees Does” by Geary Hobson......Page 257
“Water Witch” by Louis Owens......Page 267
“Grace” by Vickie L. Sears......Page 273
“Uncle Tony’s Goat” by Leslie Marmon Silko......Page 293
“The Ballad of Plastic Fred” by Eric L. Gansworth......Page 301
Acknowledgments......Page 331
Other Growing Up Titles......Page 332
Copyright Notice......Page 333
About the Publisher......Page 334