I Tell You Now: Autobiographical Essays by Native American Writers

I Tell You Now is an anthology of autobiographical accounts by eighteen notable Native writers of different ages, tribes, and areas. This second edition features a new introduction by the editors and updated biographical sketches for each writer. --Book Jacket.

CONTENTS:
You can go home again: A sequence / Mary Tall Mountain (Koyukon Athabascan)
The quiet between lightning and thunder / Ralph Salisbury (Cherokee)
Waiting at the edge: Words toward a life / Maurice Kenny (Mohawk)
"You may consider speaking about your art ..." / Elizabeth Cook-Lynn (Crow-Creek-Sioux)
Walking among the stars / Carter Revard (Osage)
On native ground / Jim Barnes (Choctaw)
Crows written on the poplars: Autocritical autobiographies / Gerald Vizenor (Anishinabe: White Earth Chippewa Tribe of Minnesota)
Shouting back to the geese / Jack D. Forbes (Powhatan-Delaware-Saponi)
When the words began to dance it was a joy to play / Duane Niatum (Klallam)
The autobiography of a confluence / Paula Guinn Allen (Laguna Pueblo)
Those dead guys for a hundred years / Jimmie Durham (Wolf Clan Cherokee)
Two dresses / Diane Glancy (Cherokee)
The language we know / Simon J. Ortiz (Acoma Pueblo)
Notes of a translator's son / Joseph Bruchac
The personal statement of Barney Bush / Barney Bush (Shawnee)
The two lives / Linda Hogan (Chickasaw)
Neon scars / Wendy Rose (Hopi-Miwok)
Ordinary spirit / Joy Harjo (Creek)

Includes bibliographical references.