Table of Contents
I. “The Truth About Stories Is… Stories Are All That We Are
1) Dawn Dumont (Plains Cree, 1978 - ), “The Way of the Sword” (2011)
2) Craig Womack (Cherokee, 1960 - ), “King of the Tie-snakes” (2001)
3) E. Pauline Johnson (Mohawk, 1861-1913), “As It Was in the Beginning” (1899)
4) Paula Gunn Allen (Laguna Pueblo / Sioux, 1939-2008), “Deer Woman” (1991)
5) Thomas King, (Cherokee, 1943 - ), “’You’ll Never Believe What Happened’ Is Always a Great Way to Start” (2003)
II. Land, Homeland, Territory
6) Kimberly Blaeser (Chippewa, 1955 - ), “Like Some Old Story” (1991)
7) Thomas King (Cherokee, 1943 - ), “Borders” (1993)
8) M. E. Wakamatsu (Yaqui, 1953 - ), “Rita Hayworth Mexicana” (2002)
9) Warren Cariou (Métis, 1966 - ), “An Athabasca Story” (2012)
10) Gord Hill (Kwakwaka’wakw, 1968 - ), “The ‘Oka Crisis,’” from The Five Hundred Years of Resistance Comic Book (2010)
11) Lee Maracle (Stó:lo, 1950 - ), “Goodbye, Snauq” (2004)
III. “Reinventing the Enemy’s Language”
12) Sixto Canul (Maya, 1948 -), “The Son Who Came Back from the United States” (1992, 2001)
13) Gloria Anzaldúa (Chicana, 1942-2004), “Ghost Trap” (1992)
14) Joel Torres Sánchez (Purépecha, 1950-), “I’m Not a Witch, I’m a Healer!” (1997, tr. 2007)
15) Diane Glancy (Cherokee, 1941 - ), “Aunt Parnetta’s Electric Blisters” (1990)
16) Jeannette Armstrong (Okanagan, 1948 - ), “Land Speaking” (1998)
IV. Cree Knowledge Embedded in Stories
17) Tomson Highway (Cree, 1951 - ), Chapter 14 from Kiss of the Fur Queen (1998)
18) Steven Keewatin Sanderson (Cree, 1976 - ), Excerpt from Darkness Calls (2004)
19) Solomon Ratt (Cree, 1954 - ), “I’m Not an Indian” (2007)
20) Paul Seesequasis (Cree, 1958 - ), “Republic of Tricksterism” (1998)
20) Lisa Bird Wilson (Cree-Métis), “Delivery” (2013)
21) Louise Bernice Halfe (Cree, 1953 - ), “Rolling Head’s Grave Yard” (2006)
22) Harold Cardinal (Cree, 1945-2005), fExcerpt from “Einew Kis-Kee-Tum-Awin (Indigenous People’s Knowledge)” (2005)
V. “Each Word Has a Story of its Own”: Story Arcs and Story Cycles
24) Alexina Kublu (Inuit, 1954 - ), “Uinigumasuittuq / She Who Never Wants to Get Married” (1999)
25) Alootook Ipellie (Inuit, 1951-2007), “Summit with Sedna, the Mother of Sea Beasts” (1993)
26) Susan Power (Standing Rock Sioux, 1961 - ), “Beaded Soles” (1997, 2004)
27) Zitkala-Sa (Gertrude Bonnin) (Sioux, 1876-1938), “The Devil” (1921)
28) Tania Willard, (Secwepemc, 1976 - ), “Coyote and the People Killer” (2004)
29) Leslie Marmon Silko (Laguna Pueblo, 1948 - ), “Language and Literature from a Pueblo Indian Perspective” (1981, 1996)
VI. Community, Self, Transformation
30) Sherman Alexie (Spokane / Coeur d’Alene, 1966 - ), “The Toughest Indian in the World” (2000)
31) Isaías Hernández Isidro (Chontal, 1966 - ), “The Secret of the Zutz’baläm”(1997, tr. 2004)
32) Richard Van Camp (Dogrib [Tlicho], 1971 - ), “Devotion” (2012)
33) Sylvain Rivard (Abenaki, 1966 - ), “Grandma and the Wentigo” (2000, tr. 2017)
34) Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas (Haida, 1954 - ), Excerpt from Red: A Haida Manga (2009)
35) Ellen Rice White (Snuneymuxw, 1922 - ), “The Boys Who Became a Killer Whale” (2006)
VII. Shifting Perspectives
37) Sandra Cisneros (Chicana, 1954 - ), “Never Marry a Mexican” (1992)
38) Gordon Robinson (Haisla, 1918-1999), “Weegit Discovers Halibut Hooks” (1956)
39) Joe Panipakuttuk (Inuit, 1914-1970), “The Many Lives of Anakajuttuq” (1969)
40) Walter K. Scott (Mohawk, 1985 - ), Excerpt from Wendy (2014)
41) Leslie Marmon Silko (Laguna Pueblo, 1948 -), “Lullaby” (1974, 1981)
42) Jo-Ann Episkenew (Métis, 1952-2016), “Notes on Leslie Marmon Silko’s ‘Lullaby’: Socially Responsible Criticism” (2002, 2017)
VIII. Indigenous Fantasy and SF
44) Daniel Heath Justice (Cherokee, 1975 - ), “Tatterborn” (2017)
45) Simon Ortiz (Acoma Pueblo, 1941 - ), “Men on the Moon” (1978, 1999)
46) Stephen Graham Jones (Blackfeet, 1972 - ), “Father, Son, Holy Rabbit” (2010)
47) Eden Robinson (Haisla / Heiltsuk, 1968 - ), “Terminal Avenue” (2004)
48) Allison Hedge Coke (Cherokee / Huron 1958 - ), “On Drowning Pond” (2010)
49) L. Catherine Cornum (Diné, 1989 - ), “The Space NDN’s Star Map” (2015, 2017)
