Other Words : American Indian Literature, Law, and Culture

``Blue'' v Preface ix Part One: LITERATURE 1(154) In Other's Words: Literature and Community 3(50) Trickster among the Wordies: The Work of Gerald Vizenor 53(6) Venus on the Half-Shell? Why Not? 59(7) Remnants of the First Earth: A Review 66(3) An Ubermensch among the Apache: Or, Karl May's Tour of the Grand Teutons 69(22) Clowns and Villains: American Natives and the American Musical 91(26) Innocents Abroad: Or, Smilla Has a Sense of Snow, but Our Kanawakes Are in Egypt 117(13) Hell and Highwater 130(10) Original Simplicities and Present Complexities: Reinhold Niebuhr, Ethnocentrism, and the Myth of American Excetionalism 140(15) Part Two. LAW 155(72) Indian Presence with No Indians Present: NAGPRA and Its Discontents 157(18) Losing My Religion: Native American Traditions and American Religious Freedom 175(14) Triangulated Power and the Environment: Tribes, the Federal Government, and the States 189(12) Scaling Rios Montt: Indigenous Peoples, International Human Rights, and the Pinochet Case 201(26) Part Three. CULTURE 227(78) It Came from Outer Space: Of Museums, Meteorites, and Messengers of the Gods 229(8) Native Reformation in Indian Country? Forging a Relevant Spiritual Identity among Indian Christians 237(5) A Biblical Paradigam for Native Liberation 242(4) Trickster: The Sacred Fool 246(12) Reaching beyond Language: Native American Eschatology and Apocalyptic Messianism 258(22) From I-Hermeneutics to We-Hermeneutics: Native Americans and the Post-Colonial 280(25) Notes 305(52) Bibliography 357(18) Index 375