SOURCE: A review of Spider Woman's Granddaughters: Traditional Tales and Contemporary Writing by Native American Women, in Belles Lettres: A Review of Books by Women, Vol. 5, No. 4, Summer, 1990, pp. 40, 42.

In the review below, Goodluck positively assesses Spider Woman's Granddaughters and praises the collection's focus and organization.

Paula Gunn Allen, the editor of Spider Woman's Granddaughter, is a Laguna Pueblo/Sioux scholar, feminist, and professor of Native American studies. In The Sacred Hoop, she gave her audience a vision of the feminine in traditional native thought and literature. In this book [Spider Woman's Granddaughters] she has gathered views, ideas, and wisdom about surviving personal and social conflict, written by women from a number of different tribes. Stories about women warriors and their resistance to white encroachment accompany prose, by traditional and contemporary Native American women, concerning stress, conflict, loss, separation, relocation, death, rebirth, and revitalization.

Allen's review of historical...