Paula Gunn Allen, Author Beacon Press $21 (268p) ISBN 978-0-8070-8103-7
Whatever Allen's source of inspiration may be (she claims to channel the teachings of Native American goddesses), these 21 mythic tales constitute a well-structured feminist guidebook to spiritual realms. (Sept.)
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Paula Gunn Allen, Author, Tisha Hooks, Editor Beacon Press (MA) $25 (262p) ISBN 978-0-8070-4640-1
While most prior efforts in the genre of the Indian professorial essay collection have drifted between incomprehensible and fanatical, this book from Allen (The Sacred Hoop), of Laguna Pueblo and Lebanese ancestry, is most often even-keeled (if on...
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Paula Gunn Allen, Author, Paula Gunn Allen, Author . Harper San Francisco $25.95 (368p) ISBN 978-0-06-053687-9
In what is presented as the first study of its kind by an American Indian scholar, Allen (The Sacred Hoop) offers a corrective to the romantic story of Pocahontas told initially by Capt. John Smith of the Virginia Company and most recently by Disney
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Laula Gunn Allen, Author, Paula Gunn Allen, Author Beacon Press (MA) $24.95 (311p) ISBN 978-0-8070-4600-5
The average life expectancy of the American Indian woman is only 55 years; up to one-fourth of all Indian women have been sterilized without informed consent; the federal government's policies of relocation, forced acculturation and destruction of...
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