Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • To keep the plot moving
  • An aside : how do we know about literary Indians?
  • Warriors, still?
  • The pitfalls of telling tribal histories : Lewis and Clark, colonial diaries, and fool soldiers
  • Defensive, regulatory, and transformative functions of Indian studies
  • The struggle for cultural heritage
  • The ghosts of American history in art and literature
  • Conclusion.