Grandmothers of the Light: A Medicine Woman's Handbook. (book reviews)

Allen, Paula Gunn. Grandmothers of the Light: A Medicine Woman's Handbook. Boston: Beacon Press, 1991. $19.95 cloth.

This book is a highly personal exploration of Indian oral traditions. Paula Gunn Allen explores the mysteries of women's power in Native American societies and retells the tribal myths that surround them. She has chosen stories not only from her own Pueblo heritage but from a wide range of tribal cultures. She tells the story of the birth of Changing Woman from the Navajo and explains the significant of White Buffalo Calf Woman to the Lakota. She weaves her own ...

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