Description
Spider Woman's Granddaughters: Traditional Tales and Contemporary Writing by Native American Women is an anthology of traditional and modern short stories concerning Native American women edited by scholar and author Paula Gunn Allen. Organized around themes such as Warriors, the Casulaties, and the Resistance. The collections includes traditional stories such as the Okanagan traditional story about the beginning and end of the world; the Mohawk Creation Story; and the Pueblo story Whirlwind Man Steals Yellow Woman. Authors include Linda Hogan, Paula Gunn Allen, Elizabeth Cook-Lynn, Mary Tall Mountain, Vickie Sears, Anna Lee Walters, Ella Cara Deloria, Emily Pauline Johnson, Louise Erdrich, Delia Oshogay, Zitkala-Sa, Misha Gallaghar, and LeAnne Howe.