Part 1. Transethnicity/transculturality and protest in historical contexts. "You have liberty to return to your own country" : Tecumseh, myth, and the rhetoric of native sovereignty / Billy J. Stratton -- "IndiVisible" identities : mediating Native American and African American encounters and transethnic identity in A thrilling sketch of the life of Okah Tubbee / Sonja Georgi -- "Buffalo Bill takes a scalp" : mediated transculturality on both sides of the Atlantic with William F. Cody's wild west, from show to Hollywood and YouTube / Cathy Covell Waegner -- Native postmodern? : remediating history in the fiction of Stephen Graham Jones and D.L. Birchfield / A. Robert Lee -- Flight times in Gerald Vizenor's Blue ravens : white earth mediating history / A. Robert Lee -- Part 2. (Trans)media literacy, youth cultures, and nation. CWY A DBP [Roman script approximation of figures from Cherokee syllabary] Cherokee writing : mediating traditions, codifying nation / Ellen Cushman -- "We can tell our own history, we can tell our own future" : quese IMC, culture shock camp, and an indigenous hip-hop movement / Chris LaLonde -- Jim Jarmusch's Dead man revisited : still thwarting all cultural and cinematic notions of alterity / Christine Plicht -- Mediating the native gaze : the American Indian youth's cinematic presence in Chris Eyre's films / Ludmila Martanovschi -- Refraction and helio-tropes : native photography and visions of light / Kimberly Blaeser -- Interlude. RefleXions : a creative essay / Evelina Zuni Lucero -- Festa de Sant Joan : June 23, 2012, Barcelona, Spain / Jane Haladay -- Part 3. Performance, gender, and cultural capital. "The bear is our protector" : metaphor and mediation in the northern Ute (Nuche) bear dance / Sally McBeth -- Eric Gansworth's theatrical productions : "Indianness" mediated through the juxtaposition of cultural capital and performance / Nicholle Dragone -- Eric Gansworth's Re-creation story : mediation and remediation / John Purdy -- Mobile Indians : capitalism, the performance of mobility, and the mediation of place in Minda Martin's documentary Free land / Kerstin Schmidt -- Part 4. "Crow commons" : creative correspondences and virtual affiliations. An exposition of virtual exchanges / Kimberly Blaeser, Jane Haladay, Gordon Henry Jr., Molly McGlennen, and Jesse Peters -- Envoy : response to "Crow commons" / Gerald Vizenor.