This first major collection of contemporary Native American writing for the theatre ranges from the groundbreaking work of Body Indian to the experimental performance style of Spiderwoman Theater.

Contains:

Indian Radio Days by LeAnne Howe and Roxy Gordon (Choctaw)
The Story of Susannah by Victoria Nalani Kneubuhl (Hawaiian)
Body Indian by Hanay Geiogamah (Kiowa)
The Woman Who was a Red Deer Dressed for the Deer Dance by Diane Glancy (Cherokee)
Power Pipes by Spiderwoman Theater (Kuna/Rappahannock)
Only Drunks and Children Tell the Truth by Drew Hayden Tayler (Ojibway)
The Independence of Eddie Rose by Willam S. Yellow Robe, Jr. (Assiniboine/Nakota)

The volume includes an introduction by the editor, Mimi Gisolfi D'Aponte, Professor of Theatre at CUNY, and an epilogue by Elizabeth Theobald, director of the Manshantucket Pequot Museum in Connecticut.