Tabla de Contenidos:
  • pt. 1. Thoughts on the art of reviewing books. 1. Wounded Knee, 1973. 2. The broken cord. 3. Black Eagle child. 4. Black Hills, white justice
  • pt. 2. Dispossession. 5. Why I can't read wallace stegner. 6. A centennial minute from Indian country, or, Lessons in christianizing the aboriginal peoples of America from the example of Bishop William Hobart Hare
  • pt. 3. Who will tell the stories? 7. The relationship of a writer to the past: art, a literary principle, and the need to narrate. 8. The American Indian fiction writers: cosmopolitanism, nationalism, the Third World, and first nation sovereignty
  • pt. 4. Women's lives. 9. The American Indian woman in the ivory tower. 10. The big pipe Case
  • pt. 5. The last word. 11. How scholarship comes to be relevant, or Dumbarton Oaks is fifty years old. 12. America's oldest racism: the roots of inequality. 13. End of the failed metaphor.