Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Epigraph
Contents
Foreword by Sherwin Bitsui
Map of the Navajo Nation and Dinétah
Diné Directional Knowledge and Symbolic Associations
Introduction
Blackhorse Mitchell
Reflections on Conversations with Blackhorse Mitchell
I Do Have a Name, from Miracle Hill: The Story of a Navajo Boy
The Drifting Lonely Seed, from Miracle Hill: The Story of a Navajo Boy
Beauty of Navajoland
Grey Cohoe
The Promised Visit
Awaken Me Redhouse-borne Again
Gloria J. Emerson
Interview
Shapeshifting
Grace’s Hairnet
Nia Francisco
Interview
táchééh/sweat house
iridescent child
ode to a drunk woman
naabeeho women with blue horses
i hate elvis presley
Tiana Bighorse
Selections from Bighorse the Warrior
Tina Deschenie
Interview
In the Best of Dreams
You Bring Out the Diné in Me
We Are Corn
Near Crystal
Luci Tapahonso
Interview
She Sits on the Bridge
Hills Brothers Coffee
In 1864
Raisin Eyes
This Is How They Were Placed for Us
Náneeskaadí
The Motion of Songs Rising
The Canyon Was Serene
Elizabeth Woody
Interview
Chinle Summer
Wind’s Movement
Irene Nakai Hamilton
Interview
Sunrise Flight into Acid Rain/Cancelled
Summer Coup, 1973
Dishwasher
Laura Tohe
Interview
Our Tongues Slapped into Silence
Joe Babes
Easter Sunday
Within Dinétah the People’s Spirit Remains Strong
Tsoodził, Mountain to the South
Deep in the Rock
Niłts3 Bi'áád/Female Rain
Rex Lee Jim
Interview
Saad/Language/Voice
Tó Háál̨í/Spring
Na'azheeh/Hunting
Three Short Poems
Irvin Morris
Selections from From the Glittering World
Esther G. Belin
Interview
Euro-American Womanhood Ceremony
Ruby’s Answer
Sustainability: A Romance in Four Scenes
Backbone
Emergence
Morning Song
I keep my language in my back pocket like a special handkerchief that I only display when I want to show my manners in a respectful way
X+X+X+X−X−X−X
male + female divided
Shonto Begay
Interview
Darkness at Noon: Solar Eclipse
Navajo Power Plant
Drawing Life: Delineating My World
Della Frank
Interview
Shimasani My Grandmother
The Summer I Was 13
I Hate to See . . .
Roberta D. Joe
Interview
Emotional Illness
Storm Pattern
Sunset Woman’s Ivy League Escape
Coyote Shuffle Romance
Hershman John
Interview
My Feminist Grandmother
Storm Patterns
The Dark World
A Strong Male Rain
Norla Chee
Interview
Good-bye Honey, Hello Silver and Dust
Far Ahead in the Past
An Exhibit Tells the History of Diné Women Weaving
Sherwin Bitsui
Interview
Asterisk
The Northern Sun
Chrysalis
from Flood Song
Dwayne Martine
Interview
Parsing
Thought Knife
Hwééldi
Tacey Atsitty
Interview
Ach'íí'
In Strips
Calico Prints
Venaya Yazzie
Interview
gathering early dawn
The Pine Nut Eaters
No Español
grandma loves SOBE
Orlando White
Sentence
The i is a Cricket
Fill in the Blank
Meditation
PAPER MILK
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DISSOCIATE
Byron F. Aspaas
Interview
Interstate Badlands
Jake Skeets
Interview
Let There Be Coal
From Under His Cover
Thieving Ceremony
Blue Edge Cord
Bojan Louis
Interview
Currents
Nizhoní dóó 'a'ani' dóó até'él'í dóó ayoo'o'oni (Beauty & Memory & Abuse & Love)
Natanya Ann Pulley
Interview
In This Dream of Waking, a Weaver
Danielle Geller
Interview
Blood; Quantum
Rachel Heather Johnson
Interview
Apple
Nowhere Place
Hers Was a History of Grief
Paige Buffington
Interview
At Mention of Moab
Radio
Manny Loley
Interview
Niłtsą́ Biką'
Erik Bitsui
Interview
Marrying Welcome to Hell, a Hell-Made Match
Eddie and Norman, Norman and Me, Me and Eddie
Tatum Begay
Interview
Stories of a Healing Way
Chronology of Important Dates in Diné Political and Literary History / Jennifer nez Denetdale
Resources for Teachers and Readers / Michael Thompson
Acknowledgments
Bibliography
Credits
About the Editors and Contributors