Books by Janet Catherine Berlo and Complete Book Reviews

Quilting Lessons: Notes from the Scrap Bag of a Writer and Quilter

Janet Catherine Berlo, Author University of Nebraska Press $20 (144p) ISBN 978-0-8032-1318-0

This intriguing and unusual memoir deals with an 18-month period in the mid-1990s when Berlo, a professor of art history and of gender and women's studies at the University of Rochester, was afflicted by writer's block. A successful academic author (

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Spirit Beings and Sun Dancers: Black Hawk's Vision of the Lakota World

Janet Catherine Berlo, Author, Arthur Amiotte, Foreword by, Eugene Victor Thaw, Introduction by George Braziller $65 (190p) ISBN 978-0-8076-1465-5

In the early 1880s, Black Hawk, a Lakota medicine man living on the Cheyenne River Sioux Reservation in South Dakota, was commissioned to create 76 drawings by a local trader. Paid 50 cents per image, Black Hawk created a uniquely rich series...

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