Who is Naomi Littlebear from the collection, This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color?

Naomi Littlebear is a Native American who writes an essay entitled "Dreams of Violence" about her experiences with violence at the hands of the white boys she went to school with. Her grandmother was so ashamed of her coming home beaten up that she would scold her for fighting. Now, as an adult, she and her lover take refuge in each other as two victims of abuse struggling to live and love coherently and beyond the shadows of their pasts. Later in the book, she contributes "Earth-Lover, Survivor, Musician" about her art and music being her vehicles for protest and expression, and the violence and pain she experienced in the leftist women's movement. What she wants most is friends, not comrades, and to live and enjoy nature.