Introduction: "Sending a voice" -- "-Old like hills, like stars" -- Crossings -- Ancestral voices in oral tradition -- A contemporary tribe of poets -- Word senders: Black Elk and N. Scott Momaday -- Trickster's swampy Cree bones -- Blackfeet winter blues: James Welch -- "The now day Indi'ns" -- Grandmother Storyteller: Leslie Silko.