Surviving in Two Worlds: Contemporary Native American Voices

Surviving in Two Worlds brings together the voices of twenty-six Native American leaders. The interviewees come from a variety of tribal backgrounds and include such national figures as Oren Lyons, Arvol Looking Horse, John Echohawk, William Demmert, Clifford Trafzer, Greg Sarris, and Roxanne Swentzell.

Their interviews are divided into five sections, grouped around the themes of tradition, history and politics, healing, education, and culture. They take readers into their lives, their dreams and fears, their philosophies and experiences, and show what they are doing to assure the survival of their peoples and cultures, as well as the earth as a whole. Their analyses of the past and present, and especially their counsels for the future, are timely and urgent.

Writer and poet Darryl Babe Wilson, a full-blood of the Pit River tribe, has long been committed to collecting and preserving the oral cultures and histories of Native peoples. Lois Crozier-Hogle of Palo Alto, California, has been engaged in environmental issues for more than fifty years. Giuseppe Saitta is a photographer and filmmaker whose work has been published throughout the world. Jay Leibold of San Francisco has been an editor and author for sixteen years