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Tables of Contents for Mixedblood Messages
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
List of Illustrations
ix
2
Preface: Crow Love
xi
6
Acknowledgments
xvii
Part One. Mixedbloods and Mixed Messages: Adventures in Native American Literature
3
96
1. Columbus Had It Coming: Crossbloods, Crossreading, and Cultural Survival
3
9
2. Beads and Buckskin: Reading Native American Literature
12
13
3. Mapping the Mixedblood: Frontier and Territory in Native America
25
17
4. Multicultural Tourism: Native American Literature, Canon, and Campus
42
6
5. "The Song Is Very Short": Native American Literature and Literary Theory
48
9
6. Through an Amber Glass: Chief Doom and the Native American Novel Today
57
26
7. "Grinning Aboriginal Demons": Gerald Vizenor's Bearheart and the End of Tragedy
83
16
Part Two. Filming the Territory
99
36
8. The Invention of John Wayne
99
14
9. Apocalypse at the Two-Socks Hop: Dancing with the Vanishing American
113
22
Part Three. Autobiographical Reflections, or Mixed Blood and Mixed Messages
135
70
10. Blood Trails: Missing Grandmothers and Making Worlds
135
32
11. Motion of Fire and Form
167
17
12. Water Witch
184
6
13. Shared Blood
190
15
Part Four. Words, Wilderness, and Native America
205
32
14. Mapping, Naming, and the Power of Words
205
9
15. Burning the Shelter
214
4
16. "Everywhere There Was Life": How Native Americans Can Save the World
218
19
Notes
237
8
References
245
8
Index
253