Contents -- Introduction -- Paula Gunn Allen (1939-) -- Burned Alive in the Blues -- Deer Woman -- Beth E. Brant (1941-) -- Turtle Gal -- Swimming Upstream -- Diane Glancy (1941-) -- minimal indian -- Stamp Dance -- An American Proverb -- Anna Lee Walters (1946-) -- Buffalo Wallow Woman -- Las Vegas, New Mexico, July 1969 -- Apparitions -- Janet Campbell Hale (1947-) -- Claire -- Linda Hogan (1947-) -- Descent -- Bush's Mourning Feast -- Leslie Marmon Silko (1948-) -- Storyteller -- Mistaken Identity/Old Pancakes -- Patricia Riley (1950-) -- Damping Down the Road -- Wisteria -- Joy Harjo (1951-) -- The Reckoning -- the crow and the snake -- The Woman Who Fell from the Sky -- The Flood -- Letter from the End of the Twentieth Century -- Anita Endrezze (1952-) -- Grandfather Sun Falls in Love with a Moon-Faced Woman -- The Humming of Stars and Bees and Waves -- Louise Erdrich (1954-) -- Le Mooz -- Summer 1913/Miskomini-Geezis/Raspberry Sun -- Almost Soup/Lazy Stitch -- Kimberly M. Blaeser (1955-) -- Like Some Old Story -- Growing Things -- Misha Nogha (1955-) -- Memekwesiw -- Sakura -- Beth H. Piatote (1966-) -- Beading Lesson -- Life-Size Indian -- Reid Gómez (1968-) -- electric gods -- Touch. Touch. Touching -- Author Biographies and Bibliographies -- Anthologies of Native American Literatures -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.