The return / Paula Gunn Allen -- A good red journal / Kenneth Lincoln -- Through a glass darkly : colonial attitudes toward the Native Americans / James Axtell -- American Indian influence on the American pharmacopeia / Virgil J. Vogel -- Native American studies : academic concerns and community service / Clara Sue Kidwell -- Particle, pause, and pattern in American Indian narrative verse / Dell Hymes -- Answering the deer / Paula Gunn Allen -- Organizational change and conflict : a case study of the Bureau of Indian Affairs / Duane Champagne -- Trade centers : the concept and a Rancherian Culture Area example / Henry F. Dobyns -- Surviving the war by singing the blues : the contemporary ethos of American Indian political poetry / Rebecca Tsosie -- The Government-government and trust relationships : conflicts and inconsistencies / Sharon O'Brien -- "Her laugh and ace" : the function of humor in Louise Erdrich's Love medicine / William Gleason -- Disabled American Indians : a special population requiring special considerations / Felicia Hodge -- Preface to Indian country : geography and law / Imre Sutton -- Telling dreams and keeping secrets : the Bole Maru as American indian religious resistance / Greg Sarris -- Secularism, civil religion, and the religious freedom of American Indians / Vine Deloria, Jr. -- Native American religious liberty : five hundred years after Columbus / Walter R. Echo-Hawk -- Suggested guildelines for institutions with scholars who conduct research on American Indians / Devon A. Mihesuah --Theorizing the earth : feminist approaches to nature and Leslie Marmon Silko's Ceremony / Lisa Orr -- Reflections of Alcatraz / Lanada War Jack (formerly, Boyer) -- Alcatraz, activism, and accommodation / Vine Deloria, Jr. --From the reservation to the Smithsonian via Alcatraz / George P. Horse Capture -- The past as legacy and project ; postcolonial criticism in the perspective of indigenous historicism / Arif Dirlik -- Acknowledging the repatriation claims of unacknowledged California tribes / Carole Goldberg -- California Indian participation in repatriation : working toward recognition / Diana Drake Wilson -- Sovereignty and nation-building : the development challenge in Indian country today / Stephen Cornell and Joseph P. Kalt -- The urban tradition among native Americans / Jack Forbes -- The shell(fish) game : rhetoric, images, and (dis)illusions in Federal court / Jay Miller -- English, pedagogy, and ideology : a case study of the Hampton Institute, 1878-1900 / Ruth Spack -- "The earth itself was sobbing" : madness and the environment in novels by Leslie Marmon Silko and Louise Erdrich / Peter G. Beidle -- Allogan Slagle, 1951-2002 / Kenneth Lincoln -- Smartberries : interpreting Louise Erdrich's Love medicine / David Treuer -- Finding fault : indigenous seismology, colonial science, and the rediscovery of earthquakes and tsunamis in Cascadia / Coll Thrush with Ruth S. Ludwin.