[ch. 1.] Words and place: a reading of House made of Dawn / Lawrence J. Evers
[ch. 2.] Alienation and broken narrative in Winter in the blood / Kathleen M. Sands
[ch. 3.] Act of attention: event structure in Ceremony / Elaine Jahner
[ch. 4.] "He had never danced with his people": cultural survival in John Joseph Mathews's Sundown / Louis Owens
[ch. 5.] Ancient children at play - lyric, petroglyphic, and ceremonial / Kenneth M. Roemer
[ch. 6.] Textual perspectives and the reader in The surrounded / James Ruppert
[ch. 7.] Dialogic of Silko's Storyteller / Arnold Krupat
[ch. 8.] Reading narrated American Indian lives: Elizabeth Colson's Autobiographies of three Pomo women / Greg Sarris
[ch. 9.] Rebirth of Indian and Chinese mythology in Gerald Vizenor's Griever: an American monkey king in China / Cecilia Sims
[ch. 10.] Alienation and the female principle in Winter in the blood / A. Lavonne Ruoff
[ch. 11.] Fighting for her life: the mixed-blood woman's insistence upon selfhood / Janet St. Clair
[ch. 12.] New "Frontier" of Native American literature: dis-arming history with tribal humor / Kimberly M. Blaeser
[ch. 13.] 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
[ch. 14.] Indian historical novel / Alan Velie
[ch. 15.] "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
[ch. 16.] "My people ... my kind": Mouring Dove's Cogewea, the half-blood as a narrative of mixed descent / Martha L. Viehmann
[ch. 17.] Dead voices, living voice: on the autobiographical writing of Gerald Vizenor / Arnold Krupat
[ch. 18.] Comic liberators and word-healers: the interwoven trickster narratives of Louise Eredrich / Jeanne Rosie Smith.
