General Note:
"Sponsored by the American Indian Studies Advisory Panel of the Social Science Research Council"--Page opposite title page.
Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
Demography of colonialism and old and new Native Americans / Russell Thornton -- Perspectives on Native American identity / Raymond D. Fogelson -- Native Americans and the trauma of history / Bonnie Duran, Eduardo Duran, and Maria Yellow Horse Brave Heart -- Institutional and intellectual histories of Native American studies / Russell Thornton -- Literature and students in the emergence of Native American studies / Robert Allen Warrior -- Writing Indian / Kathryn W. Shanley -- Linguistics and languages in Native American studies / J. Randolph Valentine -- Native American studies and the end of ethnohistory / Melissa L. Meyer and Kerwin Lee Klein -- Using the past / Richard White -- Eagle's empire / Rennard Strickland -- Truth and tolerance in Native American epistemology / John H. Moore -- Kinship / Raymond J. DeMallie -- Directions in Native American science and technology / Clara Sue Kidwell and Peter Nabokov -- Who owns our past? / Russell Thornton.