Genocide of the mind : new Native American writing
(Book)

Pt. 1. Keeping the home fires burning in urban circles. To carry the fire home / Kathryn Lucci-Cooper -- Blood flowing in two worlds / Mary Black Bonnet -- Home: urban and reservation / Barbara Helen Hill -- Indian in a strange land / Wiley Steve Thornton -- Everyone needs someone / MariJo Moore -- Unci (grandmother) / Ben Geobe -- From Brooklyn to the reservation: five poems / Maurice Kenny -- Pt. 2. Young American Indians: the need to reclaim identity. The genocide of a generation's identity / Gabriel Horn -- We, the people: young American Indians reclaiming their identity / Lee Francis -- Indians in the attic / Joel Waters -- America's urban youth and the importance of remembering / Dave Stephenson --

Pt. 3. Native languages: where will they go from here? Song, poetry, and language: expression and perception / Simon J. Ortiz -- X. Alatsep (written down) / Joseph Dandurand -- Don't talk, don't live / Carol Snow Moon Bachofner -- Iah enionkwatewennahtons̀e:̀ we will not lose our words / James Aronhiotas Stevens -- The spirit of language / Neil McKay -- A different rhythm / H. Lee Karalis -- Names by which the spirits know us / Sean Lee Fahrlander -- Pt. 4. Indians as mascots: an issue to be resolved. Symbolic racism, history, and reality: the real problem with Indian mascots / Kimberly Rappolo -- Indian as mascots: perpetuating the stereotype / Alfred Young Man -- Invisible emblems: empty words and sacred honor / Steve Russell --

Pt. 5. Who we are, who we are not: memories, misconceptions, and modifications. Yellow Woman and a beauty of the spirit / Leslie Marmon Silko

She's nothing like we thought / Molly McGlennen

Manitowac: spirit place in Anishinaabe / Tim Hays

Pyramids, art, museum, and bones: some brief memories / David Bunn Martine

Identification pleas / Eric Gansworth

Raising the American Indian community house / Mifaunwy Shunatona Hines

The secret of breathing / Steve Elm

The Indians are alive / Virginia Driving Hawk Sneve

"Indians, " solipsisms, and archetypal holocausts / Paula Gunn Allen

Buffalo medicine: an essay and a play / David Seals

Postcolonial hyperbaggage: a few poems of resistance and survival / Carter Revard

About American Indian Artists, Inc. / Diane Fraher.