Includes bibliographical references and index.

More light than heat : the current state of Native American studies -- Notes from a miner's canary : natives and environmental justice -- Hope is a thing with feathers : Indian as icon -- The American Indian land case : Choctaw nation v. Cherokee nation -- NAGPRA and the return of the repressed -- Turtle goes to war : of military commissions, the Constitution, and American Indian memory -- Pilgrimage trails and migration traditions : foregrounds and backgrounds to the Mapa de Cuauhtinchan no. 2 -- Of trembling gods and moon-eyed people : ruminations on the limits of ethnography -- Telectroscopy : searching for the ancestral Puebloans -- When the demons come : (retro)spectacle among the savages -- A lantern to see by : survivance and a journey into the dark heart of Oklahoma -- The adamant of time : Native American land, architecture, and ethics -- --but I'll give you my chili recipe -- Blackface, redface, and the yellow peril -- The mystery of language : N. Scott Momaday, an appreciation -- Empires, no matter how gained : unmasking the barbarism with a human face -- Not bereft : a story of Cherokee survivance.

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