Foreword / A. Lavonne Brown Ruoff
'Honoratissimi benefactores': Native American students and two seventeenth-century texts in the university tradition / Wolfgang Hochbruck and Beatrix Dudensing-Reichel
'Pray sir, consider a little': rituals of subordination and strategies of resistance in the letters of Hezekiah Calvin and David Fowler to Eleazar Wheelock / Laura J. Murray
'(I speak like a fool but I am constrained)': Samson Occom's Short narrative and economies of the racial self / Dana D. Nelson
'Where, then, shall we place the hero of the wilderness?': William Apess's Eulogy on King Philip and doctrines of racial destiny / Anne Marie Dannenberg
'They ought to enjoy the home of their fathers: the treaty of 1838, Seneca intellectuals, and literary genesis / Daniel F. Littlefield, Jr.
'I am Joaquin!': space and freedom in Yellow Bird's The Life and adventures of Joaquin Murieta, the celebrated California bandit / John Lowe
'This voluminous unwritten book of ours': early Native American writers and the oral tradition / William M. Clements
'A terrible sickness among them': smallpox and stories of the frontier / Helen Jaskoski
'A desirable citizen, a practical business man': G.W. Grayson
Creek mixed blood, nationalist, and autobiographer /
'An Indian...and American': ethnicity, assimilation, and balance in Charles Eastman's From the deep woods to civilization / Erik Peterson
'Overcoming all obstacles': the assimilation debate in Native American women's journalism of the Dawes era / Carol Batker
'My people...my kind': Mourning Dove's Cogewea, the half-blood as a narrative of mixed descent / Martha L. Viehmann
'Because I understand the storytelling art': the evolution of D'Arcy McNickle's The Surrounded.
