Sister nations Book

	Foreword
	Introduction
	Acknowledgments
	Sleepwalker	5
	First Woman	8
	Shadow Sisters	10
	A Woman's Old Age	14
	Piece Quilt: An Autobiography	15
	Welcome to the Land of Ma'am	23
	Picking Indian Tea	26
	Craving: First Month	28
	She Dances	29
	In the Fields	30
	Choctalking on Other Realities	35
	Stitch upon Stitch	50
	Sipping	51
	One at a Time	54
	Term	57
	Limp Strings	59
	Red Hawk Woman	61
	Vicks	63
	A Cousin from California Shows Up at My House, the First Time in Thirty Years	67
	Doe Season	68
	The Shawl	70
	Anna Ghostdancer	78
	Conjure	79
	Long Division	80
	Chi-Ko-ko-koho and the Boarding School Prefect	82
	Mother's Love	84
	Tough Audience	96
	Brother's Passing	97
	Close to Bone	99
	In Dinetah	100
	In Memory of Shame	105
	Her Pocahontas	110
	Butter Maiden and Maize Girl Survive Death Leap	112
	Fleur-de-Lis	114
	Untitled	121
	Miracle	122
	Ikwe Ishpiming	133
	To the Woman Who Just Bought a Set of Native American Spirituality Dream Interpretation Cards	134
	Grandmother, Salish Mathematician	136
	Escape from the Rez on a Saturday Night	137
	what's an indian woman to do?	138
	The Frybread Queen	140
	Love is Blind	142
	Not Indian Enough	143
	Alina in Kansas	145
	after powwow	147
	the one who got away	153
	Emergence	154
	Smile	159
	The Great Spirit's Wife	160
	The Abandoned Wife Gives Herself to the Lord	161
	How to Get to the Planet Venus	162
	Coyote Meets His Match	177
	Husbands	178
	Elegy for Bobby	179
	The Power of Crushed Leaves	181
	My Books & Your White Women	183
	Is It Too Much to Ask?	184
	The Big Rectangle	186
	Tsoodzil, Mountain to the South	187
	Ashkii Nizhoni	189
	the way around losing you	195
	Contributors	197
	Information on Tribes	219
	Notes	226