Introduction -- The ways of our grandmothers: Grandmother of the sun : ritual gynocracy in Native America ; When women throw down bundles : strong women make strong nations ; Where I come from is like this -- The word warriors: The sacred hoop : a contemporary perspective ; Whose dream is this anyway? : remythologizing and self-definition in contemporary American Indian fiction ; Something sacred going on out there : myth and vision in American Indian literature ; The feminine landscape of Leslie Marmon Silko's Ceremony ; A stranger in my own life : alienation in AMerican Indian poetry and prose ; The ceremonial motion of Indian time : long ago, so far ; Answering the deer : genocide and continuance in the poetry of American Indian women ; This wilderness in my blood : spiritual foundations of the poetry of five American Indian women -- Pushing up the sky: Angry women are building : issues and struggles facing American Indian women today ; How the West was really won ; Who is your mother? : Red roots of White feminism ; Kochinnenako in academe : three approaches to interpreting a Keres Indian tale ; Hwame, Koshkalaka, and the rest : lesbians in American Indian cultures ; Stealing the thunder : future visions for American Indian women, tribes, and literary studies.