Research Catalog

Title

Living the spirit : a gay American Indian anthology / compiled by Gay American Indians, Will Roscoe, coordinating editor.

Publication

New York : St. Martin's Press, ©1988.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Roscoe, Will.
• Gay American Indians (Organization)

Description

xiv, 235 pages : illustrations, portraits; 22 cm.

Series Statement

Stonewall Inn editions

Uniform Title

Stonewall Inn editions.

Subject

• 1900 - 1999
• Indian gay people > Literary collections
• Indian lesbians > Literary collections
• Gay people's writings, American
• American literature > Indian authors
• Indians of North America > Sexual behavior > Literary collections
• American literature > 20th century
• Homosexuality > United States
• Indians of North America > Sexual behavior
• American literature
• Homosexuality
• Indian gay people
• Indian lesbians
• United States
• American literature 20th century
• American literature Indian authors
• Gays' writings, American
• Homosexuality United States
• Indian gays Literary collections
• Indian lesbians Literary collections
• Indians of North America Sexual behavior
• Indians of North America Sexual behavior Literary collections

Genre/Form

Literary collections.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-235).

Contents

I. Artists, healers, and providers : the berdache heritage. Some like Indians endure / Paula Gunn Allen -- Tinselled bucks : a historical study in Indian homosexuality / Maurice Kenny -- Sex/gender systems in native North America / Midnight Sun -- Strange country this : images of berdaches and warrior women / Will Roscoe -- Ever since the world began : berdache myths and tales. II. Gay American Indians today : living the spirit -- Children of Grandmother Moon / M. Wolfeather -- Speaking up / Erna Pahe -- Grandpa's little girl / Debra S. O'Gara -- Becoming Indian / Kieran Prather/Jerry -- A national disgrace / Lawrence William O'Connor -- Gay American Indians Ben the Dancer -- Selections from Raven's road / Paula Gunn Allen -- Winkte ; Pima ; United / Maurice Kenny -- Coyote and Tehoma / Daniel-Harry Steward -- Coyote learns a new trick ; A long story ; Her name is Helen / Beth Brant -- Today was a bad day like TB ; Savage eloquence / Chrystos -- Homelands and family ; Journeys of the mind ; Wewoka Oklahoma-- summer '85 / Anne Waters -- Understanding Grandfather / Daniel Little Hawk -- A freedom song / Tala Sanning -- Charleen just never came back / Mary TallMountain -- O Mother Earth / Lawrence William O'Connor -- "My ephemeral beauty ..." / Midnight Sun -- "Your body ..." / Nola M. Hadley -- My rug maker fine / Ben the Dancer -- "Stepping softly ..." / Carole LaFavor -- Horseshoes / Joe Dale Tate Nevaquaya -- "Our lives go on ..." / Janice Gould -- "I have picked a bouquet ..." / Richard LaFortune.

Call Number

HBC 88-2466

ISBN

• 0312018991
• 9780312018993
• 031203475X
• 9780312034757
• 9780312302245 (pbk.)
• 031230224X (pbk.)

LCCN

87036691

OCLC

17440290

Title

Living the spirit : a gay American Indian anthology / compiled by Gay American Indians, Will Roscoe, coordinating editor.

Imprint

New York : St. Martin's Press, ©1988.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Stonewall Inn editions

Stonewall Inn editions.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-235).

Chronological Term

1900 - 1999

Indexed Term

American literature 20th century

American literature Indian authors

Gays' writings, American

Homosexuality United States

Indian gays Literary collections

Indian lesbians Literary collections

Indians of North America Sexual behavior

Indians of North America Sexual behavior Literary collections

Added Author

Roscoe, Will.

Gay American Indians (Organization)

Research Call Number

HBC 88-2466

MSS DIV IGIC NONF L44b