Plain of Jars: and Other Stories

Acknowledgments

Acknowledgments Some of the stories in this book have appeared in the following places: “The C.O.,” in A: A Journal of Contemporary Literature; “The Odor of Dead Fish,” in Aniyunwiya/Real Human Beings: An Anthology of Cherokee Literature; “Shin Splints,” in Working Clans Indigenous (tentative title), edited by Allison Hedge Coke; “An Attitude of Dignity,” in New America; “Standing-In for Fritz Scholder and Yoko Ono,” in Rampike; “Marlene,” in The Remembered Earth: An Anthology of Contemporary Native American Literature; “Live Coverage of the Induction Ceremonies of the Inauguration of the Serial Killers Hall of Fame,” in Crisp Blue Edges; “Arrowhead,” in The Florida Review; “Hollow Horn,” in Native Literatures:Generations; and “Plain of Jars,” in Yellow Medicine Review. I am thankful to the editors of those publications (the late William Oandasan, Joseph Bruchac, Allison Hedge Coke, Marta Field, Kateri Akiwenzie-Damm, Rasunah Marsden, Jocelyn Bartkevicius, John Purdy, and Ralph Salisbury) for allowing me to reprint the stories in this collection. The remaining stories are herein published for the first time. I also wish to thank the following friends and fellow travelers for their support and encouragement of my work, particularly the stories in this collection: Kateri Akiwenzie-Damm, Delano Cummings, George Economou, Ralph M. Flores, Daniel Heath Justice, Joy Harjo, Denise Low, Simon J. Ortiz, Robert L. Perea, Timothy Petete, Barbara K. Robins, Alan R. Velie, Craig S. Womack, and last, but far from least, my wife, Barbara Torralba Hobson. $ vii $ ...