Night Is Gone, Day Is Still Coming: Stories and Poems by American Indian Teens and Young Adults

A symphony of young Native American voices emerges in Night Is Gone, Day Is Still Coming: Stories and Poems by American Indian Teens and Young Adults, ed. by Annette Pi a Ochoa, Betsy Franco and Traci Gourdine, with an introduction by Simon Ortiz. Memories of the past, pictures of the present (in both natural and urban settings) and hopes for the future interweave in this moving volume that includes tribes from the Chippewa to the Navajo to the Mohegan to the Inuk. The search for an identity that connects to Native traditions informs many selections, as in these lines from the poem ""Who Am I?"": ""Who am I?/ I hear tales of my ancestors/ I feel my chest fill with pride/ Knowing where I am from/ But/ I can never live as they did/ So my past is my past/ Who am I?""