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1	Pushing the Bear more books like this by Diane Glancy add to wishlist Chronicled through the diverse voices of the Cherokee, white soldiers, evangelists, leaders, and others, a historical novel captures the devastating uprooting of the Cherokee from their lands in 1838 and their forced march westward. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.63! \| signed copies \| first editions
2	Stone Heart: A Novel of Sacajawea more books like this by Diane Glancy add to wishlist Diane Glancy tells the story of Sacajawea, the Shoshoni woman who led Lewis and Clark on their epic two-year overland trek to the Pacific--an expedition that included freezing temperatures, illness, and the infant son she carried all the way on her back. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
3	Flutie more books like this by Diane Glancy add to wishlist A novel about a 13-year-old girl too shy to speak, who eventually finds her voice by harnessing her inner resources with the help of a friend. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $8.66! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
4	The Mask Maker more books like this by Diane Glancy add to wishlist Edith Lewis is the practitioner of an obscure Native American art: mask-making. When her husband leaves her, she turns to her work, and sees every aspect of her life as the basis for a mask. In the process, she resolves her problems--and the reader learns a great deal about mask-making. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $14.82! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
5	Asylum in the grasslands more books like this by Diane Glancy add to wishlist Poet, novelist, essayist, playwright, and author of more than thirty books, Diane Glancy has established herself as one of the country's most versatile and prolific writers. Distinguished by her laconic honesty, her unflinching eye, and her skillful articulation of the commonplace, she presents Native American life-especially the ways it ... see all copies from $7.00! new only from $11.91! \| first editions \| SVS
6	Rooms: New and Selected Poems more books like this by Diane Glancy add to wishlist "Rooms" is a collection of new and selected poems by Diane Glancy. The rooms are spaces from previous collections - spaces influenced by memory and the pull of the past on the present. This collection of poems walks a line between balance and imbalance and struggles for an alignment of fragmented experiences. It tries to put into perspective the ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $17.06! \| SVS
7	Visit Teepee Town: Native Writings After the Detours more books like this by Diane Glancy (Editor), Mark Nowak (Editor) add to wishlist Visit Teepee Town is the first anthology dedicated solely to postmodern North American Native poetry and poetics. The works selected here include bilingual texts, reinterpretations of traditional tales, and critiques of the Western tradition in anthropology and the social sciences. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $9.99!
8	The Cold-And-Hunger Dance more books like this by Diane Glancy add to wishlist Influenced by her rich Cherokee heritage and Christian faith, Diane Glancy's writing, like her multicultural background, is simultaneously liminal and transcendent. Being a 'marginal voice in several worlds' does not victimize Glancy but empowers her 'to tell several stories at once'. She describes this migratory process of Native storytelling and ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions
9	The Reason for Crows: A Story of Kateri Tekakwitha more books like this by Diane Glancy add to wishlist The story of a seventeenthcentury Mohawk womans interaction with her land, the Jesuits, and the religion they brought. see all copies from $8.10! new only from $8.10! \| SVS
10	Claiming Breath more books like this by Diane Glancy add to wishlist Poems, essays, and prose pieces by the celebrated Native American poet. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.98! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
11 view cover	War Cries more books like this by Diane Glancy, Rodney Sinard (Introduction by) add to wishlist These nine one and two-act plays, set in tribal villages in the Midwest and New Mexico, offer both a scorching vision of contemporary Indian life and a powerful retelling of ancient myths. The disturbing realities of poverty, drug abuse, racism, and a fragmented social fabric are redeemed by a living connection with the sacred past. see all copies from $2.96! new only from $55.52! \| signed copies \| first editions
12 view cover	Firesticks: A Collection of Stories more books like this by Diane Glancy add to wishlist In this, the fifth volume in the American Indian Literature and Critical Studies Series, Glancy winds a novella through a collection of short prose pieces to arrrive at a hodgepodge of characters with mixed identities. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions
13	Trigger Dance more books like this by Diane Glancy add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.95! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
14 view cover	Fuller Man more books like this by Diane Glancy add to wishlist Fuller Man takes place in rural Missouri and is written in Diane Glancy's characteristic style: rich in setting and personality. It is the story of Hadley and the Williges family; it is also a story about faith--religious faith and faith in humanity. Hadley's father, Bill, is a reporter for the Kansas City Chronicle and his absences from the ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $22.95! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
15 view cover	The Only Piece of Furniture in the House more books like this by Diane Glancy add to wishlist This coming-of-age story tells of a young, naive southern girl's growth to wife and mother. After marrying a military man, Rachel must leave her family for life on an army base where everything is foreign. Overwhelmed with memories of home, she sinks into a depression. Rachel ultimately reconciles the differences in her new life with the memories ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
16 view cover	The Dance Partner more books like this by Diane Glancy add to wishlist Diane Glancy sees books as being akin to maps, and often finds the Native American voices she writes about as she travels. Once, when driving through western Nevada, she stopped at Grant Mountain and Walker Lake, where the Ghost Dance began and still lives. There she found inspiration for "The Dance Partner", this outstanding collection of short ... see all copies from $2.61! new only from $2.75! \| SVS
17 view cover	The Man Who Heard the Land more books like this by Diane Glancy add to wishlist In this haunting novel by celebrated Native American author Diane Glancy, an unnamed man driving a lonely Minnesota highway hears the voice of the land--but he can't make out what it has said. The man is a professor who teaches a 'Literature and the Environment' course, but he soon realises that there is much he must still learn about the land, ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $26.99! \| signed copies \| first editions
18 view cover	Designs of the Night Sky more books like this by Diane Glancy add to wishlist A librarian of Cherokee ancestry rekindles and reinvents her Native identity by discovering the rhythm and spark of traditionally told stories in the most unusual places in the modern world. Ada Ronner, a librarian at Northeastern State University in Tahlequah, Oklahoma, hears books speak, and senses their restless flow as they circulate. The same ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions
19 view cover	Monkey Secret more books like this by Diane Glancy add to wishlist Three short stories and a novella that explore the dichotomy of being part Native American and part German-English. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $14.99! \| signed copies \| first editions
20 view cover	The Voice That Was in Travel: Stories more books like this by Diane Glancy add to wishlist In The Voice That Was in Travel, the frictions in Diane Glancy's writing express the sense of displacement her American Indian travelers endure. Whether the characters are working or on pleasure trips, in Oklahoma, on the backroads of Arkansas, or in Germany, Australia, or Italy, their journeys are always superimposed on the memories of old tribal ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.99! \| signed copies \| first editions
21 view cover	Lone Dog's Winter Count more books like this by Diane Glancy add to wishlist Lone Dog recorded his calendar on buffalo hide for the Dakota Nation, each pictograph signifying an outstanding event from 1800 to 1871. With contemporary pictographs in the form of poems, Diane Glancy uses this idea of commemoration as a vehicle for her observations on the present and the past. see all copies from $3.99! new only from $20.44! \| signed copies \| first editions
22 view cover	One Age in a Dream more books like this by Diane Glancy, Wmilie Buchwald (Editor), Jay Moon (Illustrator) add to wishlist Glancy's poetry is strongly influenced by her Cherokee heritage. see all copies from $2.48! new only from $2.98! \| signed copies \| first editions
23 view cover	Pushing the Bear: A Novel of the Trail of Tears more books like this by Diane Glancy add to wishlist The story of the Trail of Tears told through the voices of Indians, soldiers, evangelists, leaders, madwomen, songs, folktales, and historical documents. Diane Glancy, herself part Cherokee, has received many prizes for her writing, including the American Book Award and the Pushcart Prize. see all copies from $1.99! signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
24 view cover	Primer of the Obsolete more books like this by Diane Glancy add to wishlist This remarkable collection of poems explores the conjoined cultures of Indian and European, the revisions the conquered race must face, and the disruption that results from the attempt to combine divergent cultures in a single being. These poems speak from a four-cornered world; Cherokee and white, Christian and conjuring. They attempt to retrieve ... see all copies from $4.50! new only from $7.00! \| signed copies \| first editions
25 view cover	American Gypsy: Six Native American Plays more books like this by Diane Glancy add to wishlist In American Gypsy, a collection of six plays, Diane Glancy uses a melange of voices to invoke the myths and realities of modern Native American life. Glancy intermixes poetry and prose to address themes of gender, generational relationships, acculturation, myth, and tensions between Christianity and traditional Native American belief systems. The ... see all copies from $11.18! new only from $23.51! \| SVS

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