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What has the author Pearl Drego written?

Pearl Drego (February 16, 1928–March 19, 2017) was an American poet and educator from the Blackfeet Nation of the Northern Plains. While she is best known for her poetry, she was also an instructor and mentor to writers of American Indian descent.

* Poetry collections

* _Songs in the Smoke: Poems_ (Many Trails Press, 1971)

* _The Whispering Wind_ (Many Trails Press, 1977)

* _The Moon in a Bowl of Water_ (Many Trails Press, 1985)

* _From the Roots of Love and Hate: Collected Poems_ (Many Trails Press, 2005)

* Anthologies

* _Songs from This Earth on Turtle's Back: Contemporary American Indian Poetry_ (Thunder's Mouth Press, 1983)

* _The Remembered Earth: An Anthology of Contemporary Native American Literature_ (University of New Mexico Press, 1984)

* _Reinventing the Enemy's Language: Contemporary Native Women's Writings of North America_ (W. W. Norton & Company, 1997)

* Contributions to literary magazines and journals

* _The American Indian Quarterly_

* _The Greenfield Review_

* _The Journal of American Indian Education_

* _The Nation_

* _Prairie Schooner_

* Essays

* "American Indians and the Environment: A Perspective" (_Environment: Science and Policy for Sustainable Development_ Spring 1992)

* "On Being a Native American and a Woman" (_The American Indian Quarterly_ Winter 1994)

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