Research Catalog

Title

The Sound of rattles and clappers : a collection of new California Indian writing / edited by Greg Sarris.

Publication

Tucson : University of Arizona Press, c1994.

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Details

Additional Authors

Sarris, Greg

Description

xiv, 161 p.; 24 cm.

Summary

A collection of new California Indian poems. The flavor is provided in "We Exist," by Janice Gould: "Our writers try to counteract the history/ that says we are a conquered People."

Series Statement

Sun tracks ; v. 26

Uniform Title

Sun tracks v. 26.

Subject

• Geschichte 1950-1990
• 1900-1999
• Indians of North America > California > Literary collections
• American literature > Indian authors
• American literature > 20th century
• American literature > California

Genre/Form

Literary collections

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• Introduction: The Sound of Rattles and Clappers -- Janice Gould -- Coyotismo -- Children Who Never Departed -- Doves -- History Lesson -- We Exist -- Alphabet -- When Winter Hits Lake Erie -- To Speak Your Name -- Blackbirds -- Three Stories from My Mother. Prayer Path. Cure Night. She Comes Home -- Questions of Healing -- Last Journey -- Beneath My Heart -- Frank LaPena/Tauhindauli -- Untitled: There was a time ... -- I Am Stone of Many Colors -- Wrapped Hair Bundles -- The Year of Winter -- Waiting for a Second Time -- The Man Who Travels -- Hands Tell -- Red Crane Coming -- Red Pond -- Rabbit Crazy -- Untitled -- The Universe Sings -- James Luna -- Half Indian/Half Mexican -- The Artifact Piece -- He's Resting Now -- "The News" -- Untitled -- City Notes -- Mr. Anonymous -- "How to Make an Ass of Yourself" -- Untitled -- Morning Reservation -- Untitled -- "Red Shoes" -- Notes: 1985/James Luna/Luiseno Indian -- Stephen Meadows -- John's Song -- A Fire If It Burns -- In the Shadow of the Tower.
• Blues For Juanito -- The Intrusion -- Grass Valley -- For My Father Having Lost His Mind -- For Chief Joseph -- The Dying Place -- Bare-Root -- The Spirit of the Bayonet -- Suicide Creek -- At the Crossing -- For the Living -- William Oandasan -- Grandmothers Land -- Round Valley Songs I -- Round Valley Songs II -- Natural Law -- Hunger -- Laguna Landscape -- Acoma -- Wendy Rose -- We Live! -- For the Scholar Who Wrote a Book About the "American Indian Literary Renaissance" -- Trophy in Two Acts -- For the Campus Committee on the Quality of Life -- For the Angry White Student Who Wanted to Know If I Thought White People Ever Did Anything Good for 'the Indians' -- The Endangered Roots of a Person -- If I Am Too Brown or Too White for You -- Moths Point the Way to Oklahoma -- April Daughtersong -- Georgiana Valoyce-Sanchez -- A Light To Do Shellwork By -- The Eye of the Flute -- The Dolphin Walking Stick -- Have Faith -- Chumash Man -- I Saw My Father Today -- Cahuilla Bird Song -- Fat of the Land.
• Mama's Water Story -- Petroglyphs -- The Dreaming -- Awake -- Summer 1945 -- Confessions of an American Indian Parochial-School Teacher -- Greg Sarris -- Sam Toms' Last Song -- The Progress of This Disease -- Kathleen Smith -- Crab Louis and the Jitterbug -- The Bitter and the Sweet -- Abalone: A Precious Gift -- Darryl Babe Wilson -- Diamond Island: Alcatraz -- Gedin Ch-Lum-Nu/"Let It Be This Way" -- Et-Wi -- Before There Was Something, There Was Nothing: The Creation -- Splashes of Red -- Dancing.

ISBN

• 0816512809 (cl : acid-free paper)
• 0816514348 (pb : acid-free paper)

LCCN

^^^93043864^

OCLC

• 29387808
• SCSB-11581562

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library