| Description |
xiv, 381 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Series |
American Indian literature and critical studies series ; [v. 39] |
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American Indian literature and critical studies series ; v. 39.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [357]-374) and index. |
| Contents |
Part one: Literature -- 1. In other's words: literature and community -- 2. Trickster among the wordies: the work of Gerald Vizenor -- 3. Venus on the half-shell? Why not? -- 4. Remnants of the first earth: a review -- 5. An Übermensch among the Apache: or, Karl May's tour of the Grand Teutons -- 6. Clowns and villains: American natives and the American musical -- 7. Innocents abroad: or, Smilla has a sense of snow, but our Kanawakes are in Egypt -- 8. Hell and highwater -- 9. Original simplicities and present complexities: Reinhold Niebuhr, ethnocentrism, and the myth of American exceptionalism -- Part two: Law -- 10. Indian presence with no Indians present: NAGPRA and its discontents -- 11. Losing my religion: native American traditions and American religious freedom -- 12. Triangulated power and the environment: tribes, the Federal government, and the states -- 13. Scaling Ríos Montt: indigenous peoples, international human rights, and the Pinochet case -- Part three: Culture -- 14. It came from outer space: of museums, meteorites, and messengers of the Gods -- 15. Native reformation in Indian country? Forging a relevant spiritual identity among Indian Christians -- 16. A biblical paradigm for native liberation -- 17. Trickster: the sacred fool -- 18. Reaching beyond language: native American eschatology and Apocalyptic Messianism -- 19. From I-Hermeneutics to We-Hermeneutics: native Americans and the post-colonial. |
| Subject |
Indians of North America -- Legal status, laws, etc.
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| Local Subject |
Indigenous peoples -- North America -- Social conditions.
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| Subject |
Indians in literature.
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| Local Subject |
Indigenous peoples -- North America -- Legal status, laws, etc.
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| Subject |
Indians of North America -- Social conditions.
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| Local Subject |
Indigenous peoples in literature.
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| ISBN |
080613352X alkaline paper |
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