Cedar Smoke on Abalone Mountain

By Norla Chee, 2001.

This collection of thirty-seven poems seamlessly weaves the spiritual with the daily and the present with the past. Chee’s poetry as song and story is a mix of Navajo, which is her cultural heritage, and the “Other,” as indicated by non-Navajo customs, ideas, and experiences. She utilizes this comparison to bring about a fuller and richer dimension of cultural vitality and an appreciation of different cultural legacies in vigorous relationship with each other.

49 pp.

$12 paper; ISBN 978-0-935626-55-7

Comeuppance at Kicking Horse Casino and Other Stories

By Charles Brashear, 2000.

Brashear's collection of short stories addresses American Indian-white contact throughout the history of North America. Several of the stories involve mixed bloods, products of Indian-white marriages, a situation that nearly always generates divided loyalties and identity crises. Each story highlights an individual’s quandary—and often alienation—in negotiating and adapting to a face-to-face encounter with whites.

200 pp.

$15 paper; ISBN 978-0-935626-51-4

The Light on the Tent Wall: A Bridging  

By Mary TallMountain, 1990. 

Mary TallMountain is a Native writer whose "lantern voices seek to lead us out of the given darkness," and "her work, like seasoned oak, is full of heat and fire, simplicity and compassion," writes poet and scholar Alfred Robinson. The poems in this collection confront death and engage the sacred. Joy Harjo calls each poem "a track, and the series of tracks makes a bridge back to the 'light on the tent wall,' which is the sacred place of the songs, the stories that created us."

96 pp. 

$12.00 paper; ISBN 978-0-935626-34-4

Migration Tears  

By Michael Kabotie (Lomawywesa), 1987. 

Michael Kabotie or Lomawywesa, son of the artist Fred Kabotie, was born in 1942 at Shungopavi. He is of the Hopi Sinnum, Water/Snow clan, and he is a painter, lithographer, serigrapher, goldsmith and silversmith. In this book of poetry he recreates Hopi traditions for modern Indians in bold, traditional strokes.
 
54 pp.

$10.00 paper; ISBN 978-0-935626-32-8

Old Shirts & New Skins  

By Sherman Alexie, 1993. 
 
Sherman Alexie's poetic power renders an honest and painful perception of contemporary Native American life. In this collection, Alexie, a poet of the Coeur d'Alene people, speaks for the spirit of Native American resistance, determination, and sovereignty, compelling readers to confront reality with his honest and inspiring vision. Remarkable in its candor and gracefully constructed, this collection of poems binds us to the present and, at the same time, connects us to the voices of the past.

94 pp. 

$12.00 paper; ISBN 978-0-935626-36-0

Songs from an Outcast

By John E. Smelcer, 2000.

In these poems, written in the Ahtna language and then rendered into memorable English, John Smelcer conveys a strong sense of his ancestry (Cherokee/Ahtna), what poet Denise Levertov calls "his constant haunting awareness of indigenous life so grievously wounded yet still alive." Smelcer speaks from the Alaskan landscape, for the land, and for the people that belong to it. Smelcer has steeped himself and his poetry in his Ahtna traditions of language and ritual. As a result, his writing, with remarkable strength, succeeds in bridging his Native and English worlds.

95 pp.

$12 paper; ISBN 978-0-935626-45-X