NOTHING 5UT THETRUTH

AN ANTHOLOGY or NATIVE AMERICAN LITERATURE

John Purdy Western Washington University

James Ruppert University of Alaska, Fairbanks

SUB Gfittingen 7 214 804 453

2002 A 7912

Prentice Hall

Upper Saddle River, New Jersey 07458 CONTENTS

Selections by Author x Preface xiv

NONPICTION 5

Introduction 1 Susan Perez Castillo, Postmodernism, Native American Literature and the Real: The Silko-Erdrich Controversy 15 Elizabeth Cook-Lynn, (Crow Creek Dakota) The American Indian Fiction Writers: Cosmopolitanism, Nationalism, the Third World, and First Nation Sovereignty 23 Vine Deloria, Jr., (Sioux) Indian Humor 39 Charles Eastman Ohiyesa, (Sioux) The Ghost Dance War 54 Paula Gunn Allen, (Laguna Pueblo, Sioux) The Sacred Hoop: A Contemporary Perspective 62 N. Scott Momaday, (Kiowa) The Man Made of Words 82 David L. Moore, Decolonializing Criticism: Reading Dialectics and Dialogics in Native American Literatures 94 Simon J. Ortiz, (Acoma Pueblo) Towards a National Indian Literature: Cultural Authenticity in Nationalism 120 Carter Revard, (Osage) History, Myth, and Identity Among Osages and Other Peoples 126 Greg Sarris, (Miwok-Pomo) The Woman Who Loved a Snake: Orality in Mabel McKay's Stories 141 Leslie Marmon Silko, (Laguna Pueblo) Language and Literature from a Pueblo Perspective 159 An Old-Time Indian Attack Conducted in Two Parts: Part One— Imitation "Indian" Poems/Part Two—Gary Snyder's Turtle Island 166 Brian Swann, Introduction: Only the Beginning 172 vi Contents

TICTION l?0

Sherman Alexie, (Spokane, Coeur d'Alene) The Approximate Size of My Favorite Tumor 194 This Is What It Means to Say Phoenix, Arizona 203 Beth Brant, (Mohawk) Swimming Upstream 212 Elizabeth Cook-Lynn, (Crow Creek Dakota) A Good Chance 218 The Power of Horses 226 Louise Erdrich, (Anishinaabe) The Red Convertible 232 Eric Gansworth, (Onondaga) Unfinished Business 240 Diane Glancy, (Cherokee) Aunt Parnetta'sElectric Blisters 250 Paula Gunn Allen, (Laguna Pueblo, Sioux) Deer Woman 255 Gordon Henry, (Anishinaabe) Sleeping in Rain 263 Linda Hogan, (Chickasaw) Aunt Moon's Young Man 266 Pauline E. Johnson, (Mohawk) As It Was in the Beginning 282 Thomas King, (Cherokee) Borders 289 A Seat in the Garden 298 D'Arcy McNickle, (Metis) The Hawk Is Hungry 305 Jim Northrup, (Anishinaabe) Veterans' Dance 313 Simon J. Ortiz, (Acoma Pueblo) The Killing of a State Cop 321 Louis Owens, (Choctaw, Cherokee) Blessed Sunshine 326 Carter Revard, (Osage) Report to the Nation: Repossessing Europe 333 Greg Sarris, (Miwok-Pomo) How I Got to Be Queen 345 Leslie Marmon Silko, (Laguna Pueblo) The Man to Send Rain Clouds 358 Tony's Story 362 Yellow Woman 367 Mary TallMountain, (Koyukon Athabaskan) The Disposal of Mary Joe's Children 375 Luci Tapahonso, (Navajo) All the Colors of Sunset 391 Anna Lee Walters, (Pawnee-Otoe) The Warriors 396 Zitkala-Sa (Gertrude Bonnin), (Sioux) The Soft-Hearted Sioux 406

POETRY 412

Sherman Alexie, (Spokane, Coeur d'Alene) 13/16 416 The Business of Fancydancing 417 Capital Punishment 418 Defending Walt Whitman 422 The Exaggeration of Despair 424 How to Write the Great American Indian Novel 425 Crazy Horse Speaks 42 7 Contents vil

Paula Gunn Allen, (Laguna Pueblo, Sioux) Dear World 430 Kopis'taya, A Gathering of Spirits 431 Soundings 433 Kimberly Blaeser, (Anishinaabe) Living History 435 Rewriting Your Life 436 Rituals, Yours—and Mine 438 Where I was That Day 439 Peter Blue Cloud, (Mohawk) Bear: A Totem Dance as Seen by Raven 442 The Old Man's Lazy 444 Rattle 446 To-ta Ti-om 449 Turtle 451 Yellowjacket 453 Drum 454 Reflections on Milkweed 456 Joseph Bruchac, (Abenaki) Above the Line 457 Blessing the Waters 459 Copal, Red Blood: Chiapas, 1998 460 Chrystos, (Menominee) Today Was a Bad Day like TB 462 Nora Dauenhaur, (Tlingit) Salmon Egg Puller—$2.15 an Hour 463 Louise Erdrich, (Anishinaabe) Captivity 464 Indian Boarding School: The Runaways 465 Jacklight 466 Old Man Potchikoo 467 Dear John Wayne 471 Turtle Mountain Reservation 4 72 Joy Harjo, (Muskogee) She Had Some Horses 474 Transformations 476 I Give You Back 477 Call It Fear 478 Eagle Poem 479 The Woman Hanging from the Thirteenth Floor Window 480 Grace 481 The Woman Who Fell from the Sky 482 Linda Hogan, (Chickasaw) Blessing 487 Song for My Name 488 Bamboo 489 Celebration: Birth of a Colt 490 Drought 490 The New Apartment, Minneapolis 491 The Truth Is 492 Elk Song 493 Geraniums 495 viii Contents

Heritage 495 It Must Be 497 Map 498 Morning: The World in the Lake 499 Maurice Kenny, (Mohawk) Akwesasne 500 Legacy 502 Sweetgrass 503 They Tell Me I Am Lost 504 Wild Strawberry 506 Wolf "Aunt" 508 Joyce carlEtta Mandrake, (Anishinaabe) Who Am I 510 N. Scott Momaday, (Kiowa) Angle of Geese 510 The Bear 511 At Risk 511 December 29, 1980: Wounded Knee Creek 512 The Colors of Night 513 The Eagle-Feather Fan 515 Simon J. Ortiz, (Acoma Pueblo) Bend in the River 515 The Creation, According to Coyote 516 Dry Root in a Wash 517 My Father's Song 518 A Story of How a Wall Stands 518 The Boy and Coyote 519 Carter Revard, (Osage) And Don't Be Deaf to the Singing Beyond 520 Driving in Oklahoma 521 In Kansas 522 An Eagle Nation 523 What the Eagle Fan Says 527 Wazhazhe Grandmother 528 Wendy Rose, (Miwok-Hopi) / Expected My Skin and My Blood to Ripen 531 If I Am Too Brown or Too White for You 532 Three Thousand Dollar Death Song 533 Leslie Marmon Silko, (Laguna Pueblo) Indian Song: Survival 535 Untitled 536 Untitled, From Ceremony 539 Storytelling 544 ^ Story from Bear County 546 Toe'osh: A Laguna Coyote Story 548 When Sun Came to Riverwoman 551 Mary TallMountain, (Koyukon Athabaskan) Good Grease 553 The Last Wolf 554 There Is No Word for Goodbye 554 Matmiya 555 Contents ix

Luci Tapahonso, (Navajo) Blue Horses Rush In 556 In Praise of Texas 557 Light a Candle 558 Raisin Eyes 559 James Welch, (Black Feet-Gros Ventre) Christmas Comes to Moccasin Flat 560 Surviving 561 Thanksgiving at Snake Butte 562 Snow Country Weavers 562 Riding the Earthboy 40 563 Roberta Hill Whiteman, (Oneida) Dream of Rebirth 563 For Heather, Entering Kindergarten 564 In the Longhouse, Oneida Museum 565 Black Eagle Child Quarterly 566 Ray Young Bear, (Mesquakie) The First Dimension of Skunk 578 Winter of the Salamander 581 The Language of Weather 582 Morning Talking Mother 584 The Significance of a Water Animal 585 Nothing Could Take Away the Bear-King's Image 586

DRAMA 591

Gerald Vizenor, (Anishinaabe) Harold of Orange: A Screenplay 591

Timeline 620 Credits 633 Index 637