Recent Work Bea Medicine 1997 - "Lakota Star Quilts: Commodity, Ceremony and Economic Development" in Marsha L. Mac Dowell and C Kurt Dewhurst (Eds.) To Honour and Comfort: Native Quilting Traditions" Santa Fe: Museum of New mexico Press and Michigan State University-p 111-117 1997- "Searching for the Bishop" in Harjo, Joy and Gloria Bird. Reinventing the Enemy's Language. New York: W.W. Horton, p 208-211 1998- "Native American Religion" and " Great Plains" In Mankiller, Wilma Gwendolyn Mink, et al, The Reader's Companion to U.S. Womens History. New York: Houghton Mifflin, pp 403-405; 411-412.