Foreword -- Introduction -- Acknowledgments -- Part I : Changing women -- Sleepwalker / kateri akiwenzie-damm ; First woman / Esther Belin ; Shadow sisters / Kimberly Blaeser ; A woman's old age / Elizabeth Cook-Lynn ; Piece quilt : an autobiography / Pauline Danforth ; Welcome to the land of ma'am / Susan Deer Cloud ; Picking Indian tea / Nicole Ducheneaux ; Craving : first month / Heid E. Erdrich ; She dances / Heid E. Erdrich ; In the fields / Allison Adelle Hedge Coke ; Choctalking on other realities / LeAnne Howe ; Stitch upon stitch / Linda Noel ; Sipping / Suzanne Rancourt ; One at a time / Margo Tamez ; Term / Margo Tamez ; Limp strings / Margo Tamez ; Red Hawk Woman / Karenne Wood ; Vicks / Evangeline Parsons Yazzie ; Part II : Strong hearts -- A cousin from California shows up at my house, the first time in thirty years / Elizabeth Cook-Lynn ; Doe season / Susan Deer Cloud ; The shawl / Louise Erdrich ; Anna Ghostdancer / Lorena Fuerta ; Conjure / Revah Mariah S. Gover ; Long division / Revah Mariah S. Gover ; Chi-Ko-ko-koho and the boarding school prefect / Linda LeGarde Grover ; Mother's love / Debra Haaland ; Tough audience / Ines Hernรกndez-Avila ; Brother's passing / Ines Hernรกndez-Avila ; Close to bone / Linda Noel ; In Dinรฉtah ; Laura Tohe ; In memory of shame / Karenne Wood -- Part III : New Age Pocahontas -- Her Pocahontas / Susan Deer Cloud ; Butter Maiden and Maize Girl survive death leap / Heid E. Erdrich ; Fleur-de-lis / Lise Erdrich ; Untitled / Lorena Fuerta ; Miracle / Terry Gomez ; Ikwe Ishpiming / Linda LeGarde Grover ; To the woman who just bought a set of Native American spirituality dream interpretation cards / Linda LeGarde Grover ; Grandmother, Salish mathematician / Teresa Iyall-Santos ; Escape from the rez on a Saturday night / Sara Littlecrow-Russell ; what's an indian woman to do? / Marcie Rendon ; The frybread queen / Annie Cecelia Smith ; Love is blind / Annie Cecelia Smith ; Not Indian enough / Annie Cecelia Smith ; Alina in Kansas / Kimberly Wensaut ; after powwow / Venaya Yazzie -- Part IV : In the arms of the skies -- the one who got away / kateri akiwenzie-damm ; Emergence / Esther Belin ; Smile / Vee F. Browne ; The Great Spirit's wife / Diane Glancy ; The abandoned wife gives herself to the Lord / Diane Glancy ; How to get to the planet Venus / Joy Harjo ; Coyote meets his match / Heather Harris ; Husbands / Heather Harris ; Elegy for Bobby / Roberta Hill ; The power of crushed leaves / Roberta Hill ; My books & your white women / Sara Littlecrow-Russell ; Is it too much to ask? / Sara Littlecrow-Russell ; The big rectangle / Laura Tohe ; Tsoodzil, mountain to the south / Laura Tohe ; Ashkii Nizhรณnรญ / Eulynda Toledo-Benalli ; the way around losing you / Kimberly Wensaut.