Mixedblood Messages : Literature, Film, Family, Place

List of Illustrations ix Preface: Crow Love xi Acknowledgments xvii Part One. Mixedbloods and Mixed Messages: Adventures in Native American Literature Columbus Had It Coming: Crossbloods, Crossreading, and Cultural Survival 3(9) Beads and Buckskin: Reading Native American Literature 12(13) Mapping the Mixedblood: Frontier and Territory in Native America 25(17) Multicultural Tourism: Native American Literature, Canon, and Campus 42(6) ``The Song Is Very Short'': Native American Literature and Literary Theory 48(9) Through an Amber Glass: Chief Doom and the Native American Novel Today 57(26) ``Grinning Aboriginal Demons'': Gerald Vizenor's Bearheart and the End of Tragedy 83(16) Part Two. Filming the Territory The Invention of John Wayne 99(14) Apocalypse at the Two-Socks Hop: Dancing with the Vanishing American 113(22) Part Three. Autobiographical Reflections, or Mixed Blood and Mixed Messages Blood Trails: Missing Grandmothers and Making Worlds 135(32) Motion of Fire and Form 167(17) Water Witch 184(6) Shared Blood 190(15) Part Four. Words, Wilderness, and Native America Mapping, Naming, and the Power of Words 205(9) Burning the Shelter 214(4) ``Everywhere There Was Life'': How Native Americans Can Save the World 218(19) Notes 237(8) References 245(8) Index 253