"The physical and cultural genocide of American Indian tribes is and was mostly about patriarchal fear of gynocracy. T…"

"Pre-Conquest American Indian women valued their role as vitalizers. Through their own bodies they could bring vital b…"

"Modern American Indian women, like their non-Indian sisters, are deeply engaged in the struggle to redefine themselve…"

"The oral tradition is vital; it heals itself and the tribal web by adapting to the flow of the present while never re…"

"Most Indian women I know are in the same bicultural bind: we vacillate between being dependent and strong, self-relia…"

"Through all the centuries of war and death and cultural and psychic destruction have endured the women who raise the …"

"The years between time immemorial and the present are long and bloody and filled with despair. But we cannot despair,…"

"American Indian women struggle on every front for the survival of our children, our people, our self-respect, our val…"

"It was a foot in name only. The misshapen mass looked more like a hoof bisected by a crack."

"Strange to think it was an erotic thing. To us, the smell of rotting flesh would be unbearable. But back then men wro…"