Living the spirit : a gay American Indian anthology / compiled by Gay American Indians ; Will Roscoe, coordinating editor.

New York : St. Martin's Press, [1988]

xiv, 235 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 22 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-235).

I. Artists, healers, and providers : the berdache heritage. Some like Indians endure / Paula Gunn Allen -- Tinselled bucks : a historical study in Indian homosexuality / Maurice Kenny -- Sex/gender systems in native North America / Midnight Sun -- Strange country this : images of berdaches and warrior women / Will Roscoe -- Ever since the world began : berdache myths and tales. II. Gay American Indians today : living the spirit -- Children of Grandmother Moon / M. Wolfeather -- Speaking up / Erna Pahe -- Grandpa's little girl / Debra S. O'Gara -- Becoming Indian / Kieran Prather/Jerry -- A national disgrace / Lawrence William O'Connor -- Gay American Indians Ben the Dancer -- Selections from Raven's road / Paula Gunn Allen -- Winkte ; Pima ; United / Maurice Kenny -- Coyote and Tehoma / Daniel-Harry Steward -- Coyote learns a new trick ; A long story ; Her name is Helen / Beth Brant -- Today was a bad day like TB ; Savage eloquence / Chrystos -- Homelands and family ; Journeys of the mind ; Wewoka Oklahoma-- summer '85 / Anne Waters -- Understanding Grandfather / Daniel Little Hawk -- A freedom song / Tala Sanning -- Charleen just never came back / Mary TallMountain -- O Mother Earth / Lawrence William O'Connor -- "My ephemeral beauty ..." / Midnight Sun -- "Your body ..." / Nola M. Hadley -- My rug maker fine / Ben the Dancer -- "Stepping softly ..." / Carole LaFavor -- Horseshoes / Joe Dale Tate Nevaquaya -- "Our lives go on ..." / Janice Gould -- "I have picked a bouquet ..." / Richard LaFortune.