Jane Whitefield, who helps people in trouble to disappear, has to disappear herself after she becomes the target of killers who want to close her business. To find Jane one of the killers, a woman, puts her feminine charms to work on Jane's fiance, Carey, who is feeling lonely because of Jane's absence. By the author of Dance for the Dead

Short, surprising and often amusing facts teach readers about the role of Native American women in their tribes.

Since the colonization of indigenous peoples in North America, the roles of NAtive women within their societies have been concealed or, at best, misunderstood. This book removes the curtain surrounding gender status and power in native societies.

Offers profiles of one hundred Native American women involved in social activism, literature, politics, medicine, and the arts

Whether looking back to a troubled past or welcoming a hopeful future, the powerful voices of Indigenous women across North America resound in this book which presents an eclectic collection of poems, essays, interviews, and art that combine to express the experience of being a Native woman.

Holy women, healers, and pipe carriers--medicine women of the Plains Indians

"Joy Harjo, one of this country's foremost Native American voices, combines elements of storytelling, prayer, and song, informed by her interest in jazz and by her North American tribal background, in this, her fourth volume of poetry. She is a mythic, visionary, and spiritual poet who draws from the Native American tradition of praising the land and the spirit, the realities of American culture, and the concept of feminine individuality. In describing...

"Misunderstood by her peers and unloved by her stepmother, the young Cherokee, Corn Flower, finds acceptance with Snakewater, the medicine woman of Old Town. Soon, Corn Flower moves into Snakewater's isolated house and begins learning the art of healing - what ceremonies to perform, which plants to harvest, how to preserve them. When Snakewater dies, Corn Flower inherits the role and the power of the medicine woman as well as her name, Snakewater.". "This...

When Loretta surrenders her young girls to the county and then disappears, she becomes one more missing Native woman in Indian Country's long devastating history of loss. But she is also a daughter of the Mozhay Point Reservation in northern Minnesota and the mother of Azure and Rain, ages 3 and 4, and her absence haunts all the lives she has touched--and all the stories they tell in this novel. In the Night of Memory returns to the fictional reservation...