Includes bibliographical references and index.

Words and Place: A reading of House Made of Dawn / Lawrence F. Evers -- Alienation and Broken Narrative in Winter in the Blood / Kathleen M. Sands -- An Act of Attention: Event Structure in Ceremony by Elaine Fahner -- "He Had Never Danced With His People": Cultural Survival in John Joseph Mathews's sundown / Louis Owens -- Ancient Children at Play--Lyric Petroglyphic, and Ceremonial / Kenneth M. Roemer -- Textual Perspectives and the Reader in The Surrounded / James Ruppert -- The Dialogic of Silko's Storyteller / Arnold Krupat - Reading Narrated American Indian Li es: Elizabeth Colson's Autobiographies of Three Pomo Women / Greg Sarris -- The Rebirth of Indian and Chinese Mythology in Gerald Vizenor's Griever: An American Monkey King in China / Cecilia Sims -- Alienationa dn the Female Principle in Winter in the Blood / A. Lavonne Ruoff -- Fighting for Her Life: The Mixed-Blood Woman's Insistene Upon Selfhood / Janet St. Clair -- The New "Frontier" of Native American Literature: Dis-Arming History with Tribal Humor / Kimberly M. Blaser -- To Be There, No Authority to Anything: Ontological Desire and Cultural and Poetic Authority in the Poetry of Ray A. Young Bear / Robert Dale Parker -- The Indian Historical Novel / Alan Velie -- "Where, Then, Shall We place the Hero of the Wilderness?" William Apess's Eulogy on King Philip and Doctrines of Racial Destiny / Anne Marie Dannenberg -- "My People ... My Kind": Mourning Dove's Cogewea, and Half-blood as a Narrative of Mixed Descent / Martha L. Viehmann -- Dead Voices, Living Voice: On the Autobioraphical Writing of Gerald Vizenor / Arnold Krupat -- Comic Liberators and Word-Healers: The Interwoven Trickster Narratives of Louise Erdrich / Jeanne Rosier Smith.