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Words and place : a reading of House made of dawn / Lawrence J. Evers -- Alienation and broken narrative in Winter in the blood / Kathleen M. Sands -- Act of attention : event structure in Ceremony / Elaine Jahner -- "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 -- Dialogic of Silko's Storyteller / Arnold Krupat -- Reading narrated American Indian lives : Elizabeth Colson's Autobiographies of three Pomo women / Greg Sarris -- Rebirth of Indian and Chinese mythology in Gerald Vizenor's Griever : an American monkey king in China / Cecilia Sims -- Alienation and the female principle in Winter in the blood / A. Lavonne Ruoff -- Fighting for her life : the mixed-blood woman's insistence upon selfhood / Janet St. Clair -- New "Frontier" of Native American literature : dis-arming history with tribal humor / Kimberly M. Blaeser -- 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 -- 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, the half-blood as a narrative of mixed descent / Martha L. Viehmann -- Dead voices, living voice : on the autobiographical writing of Gerald Vizenor / Arnold Krupat -- Comic liberators and word-healers : the interwoven trickster narratives of Louise Erdrich / Jeanne Rosie Smith.
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