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The Sacred Hoop

Recovering the Feminine in American Indian Traditions

By: Paula Gunn Allen

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Paperback | 1 September 1992 | Edition Number 2

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This pioneering work, first published in 1986, documents the continuing vitality of American Indian traditions and the crucial role of women in those traditions.

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Preface to the 1992 Edition
Acknowledgments
Introduction	p. 1
The Ways of Our Grandmothers	p. 9
Grandmother of the Sun: Ritual Gynocracy in Native America	p. 13
When Women Throw Down Bundles: Strong Women Make Strong Nations	p. 30
Where I Come from Is Like This	p. 43
The Word Warriors	p. 51
The Sacred Hoop: A Contemporary Perspective	p. 54
Whose Dream Is This Anyway? Remythologizing and Self-definition in Contemporary American Indian Fiction	p. 76
Something Sacred Going on Out There: Myth and Vision in American Indian Literature	p. 102
The Feminine Landscape of Leslie Marmon Silko's Ceremony	p. 118
A Stranger in My Own Life: Alienation in American Indian Poetry and Prose	p. 127
The Ceremonial Motion of Indian Time: Long Ago, So Far	p. 147
Answering the Deer: Genocide and Continuance in the Poetry of American Indian Women	p. 155
This Wilderness in My Blood: Spiritual Foundations of the Poetry of Five American Indian Women	p. 165
Pushing Up the Sky	p. 185
Angry Women Are Building: Issues and Struggles Facing American Indian Women Today	p. 189
How the West Was Really Won	p. 194
Who Is Your Mother? Red Roots of White Feminism	p. 209
Kochinnenako in Academe: Three Approaches to Interpreting a Keres Indian Tale	p. 222
Hwame, Koshkalaka, and the Rest: Lesbians in American Indian Cultures	p. 245
Stealing the Thunder: Future Visions for American Indian Women, Tribes, and Literary Studies	p. 262
Notes	p. 269
Selected Bibliography	p. 287
Permissions, Acknowledgments	p. 295
Index	p. 297
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