From the Book - First Illinois paperback ed.
pt. 1. Anti-Indianism defined
1. Anti-Indianism in art and literature is not just a trope
2. Is the Crazy Horse Monument art or politics
3. Literary and political questions of transformation : American Indian fiction writers
4. The idea of conscience and a journey into sacred myth
5. Tender mercies and moral dilemmas
pt. 2. A novel class of spokespersons
6. Letter to Michael Dorris
7. A mixed-blood, tribeless voice in American Indian literatures : Michael Dorris
8. Innocence, sin, and penance
9. News of the day and the Yankton case
10. Science, belief, and "stinking fish"
11. Life and death in the mainstream of American Indian biography
pt. 3. On writing and keeping a diary
12. Foreign sculptors and time zones : diary entries kept during a three-week visit to Mexico, a one-time-only effort at journal-keeping
13. Writing through obscurity
14. Pte : coming back from oblivion
15. Native studies is politics : the responsibility of Native American studies in an academic setting
16. Reconciliation, dishonest in its inception, now a failed idea
17. American Indian studies : an overview
18. Anti-Indianism and genocide : the disavowed crime lurking at the heart of America
19. Post colonial scholarship defames the Native voice : academic genocide
20. Contemporary genocide : killing along the Missouri.
