Skookum. Dear Uncle Vince / Shannon Applegate -- Poetry and prejudice / Judith Barrington -- All but the waltz. The unwanted child / Mary Clearman Blew -- Lessons in silence / Judy Blunt -- Lakota woman. Civilize them with a stick / Mary Crow Dog -- How does the dance begin? / Judith Freeman -- Born fi' dead. The harder they fall / Laurie Gunst -- Bloodlines. Transitions / Janet Campbell Hale -- Land circle. Why one peaceful woman carries a pistol / Linda Hasselstrom -- Episodes from Farewell to Manzanar / Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston -- Riding the white horse home. Bones / Teresa Jordan -- The woman warrior. A song for a barbarian reed pipe / Maxine Hong Kingston -- Porcupine dusk / Page Lambert -- Banning writ large / Patricia Nelson Limerick -- Waist-high in the west / Nancy Mairs -- Through dreams and shadows / Joanne Mulcahy -- Dakota. Getting to hope / Kathleen Norris -- Growing up game / Brenda Peterson -- Hoyt Street. Coming of age / Mary Helen Ponce -- Songs of the fluteplayer. Illegal aliens / Sharmon Apt Russell -- Nana / Maxine Scates -- The delicacy and strength of lace. Roosters and the power of love / Leslie Marmon Silko -- Sister-wife / Dorothy Allred Solomon -- The city I colored white / Kathleen Tyau -- Black women and the wilderness / Evelyn C. White -- An unspoken hunger. The village watchman / Terry Tempest Williams.