Daughters of Mother Earth

"Native America: Yesterday and Today" endeavors to share with general readers new perspectives on the history of the America's first human inhabitants. These titles explore Native Americans' crucial role in the history of the Americas, and the world as a whole, frequently from Native perspectives that have been ignored in other venues. From new findings in archeology through present-day controversies, this series presents works that will enable readers to acquire a more complete understanding of American history, and today's world. Native truth can only be discovered using Native ways of knowing. The cosmic Twinship of Earth (women) and Sky (men) requires a gender balance. Earth issues lose cogency when left to Sky. "Daughters of Mother Earth" initiates the process of righting Earth and Sky proportions by reframing Indian issues as properly gendered.